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...overwhelming emphasis on upperclass living at the River Houses subtly manifests itself in maps and pamphlets and is reflected annually when freshmen attempt to flock to the River in the housing lottery in which a Quad assignment is usually a booby prize. "There are a lot of little things that add up" to contribute to the maligned reputation of the Quad as a desolate, far-off place, according to Currier House Master Dudley R. Hershbach. And these are what cause occasionally ferocious actions like that which prompted the immediate revision of Commencement programs last June...
Today millions of pilgrims flock to Freeport to visit L.L. Bean's one and only retail outlet. To the catalogue faithful it is a shrine to a Yankee mystique woven from images of integrity, good value and handcrafted quality. Bean's merchandise is not necessarily expensive ($18 for its best button-down striped Oxford-cloth shirts), and it is not elegant. Over the years a kind of reverse chic has attached itself to its sturdy Yankee clothes and shoes: its $40 woodsman's pants, "all wool and a yard wide," say, or the $73 sheepskin-lined boots...
...Beach County courthouse has, like the town, achieved an overcharged notoriety. For starters there is a prize surname: Herbert ("Peter") Pulitzer Jr., 52, who filed suit to dissolve his six-year marriage to the former Roxanne Dixon, nee Ulrich. Peter is one of Newspaper Publisher Joseph Pulitzer's flock of grandchildren. He has money and local roots old and deep enough to prompt invitations to the oligarchs' parties and all the charity balls. Then there are the grounds for the divorce action. So far Pulitzer or his witnesses have testified that Roxanne, 31, went to bed with...
...skeptical about the prospects for effective student government at Harvard, where most natural leaders tend to flock to other campus organizations and where spontaneous protests and coalitions galvanized at the last minute tend to be more effective. But all undergraduates should use their votes seriously, because the council's first-ever $60,000 budget should be allocated prudently and because student government should broaden beyond the clique of adolescent megalomaniacs who have dominated it so often in the past...
...skeptical about the prospects for effective student government at Harvard, where most natural leaders tend to flock to other campus organizations and where spontaneous protests and coalitions galvanized at the last minute tend to be more effective. But all undergraduates should use their votes seriously, because the council's first-ever $60,000 budget should be allocated prudently and because student government should broaden beyond the clique of adolescent megalomaniacs who have dominated it so often in the past...