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Just why students flock to the pinball game is still uncertain. David Myers, a Boston distributor, claims it is because "there is a little larceny in everybody," that the player cannot resist trying to get something for nothing. Another operator says that pinball gives the little man a chance to compete in a game of skill with an athlete. Last year a Social Relations student found that most students claimed they played to "waste time." But the owner of the Holyoke Street grill in which much Harvard pinball activity centers has different ideas. "They give the boys a nice place...
Father Pehm was a stern priest. The people of Zalaegerszeg, like most Hungarians, loved wedding feasts that lasted well into the next day. He indignantly ruled that there would be no more weddings on Saturday; he wanted all his flock fit for Mass on Sunday. Once he called in a young chaplain and said: "Last night I observed you walking along the river bank with a widow. First, I do not think it proper that a young chaplain walk alone on a lonely road at night; second, I do not think it correct for him to walk with a young...
...Full Time . . . "From the very hour he was taken away in the black of night from his home, his flock, his aged mother, Cardinal Mindszenty became the victim of torturings and druggings that put him beyond the reach or realm of human help. It was he himself who said to me, when he was the honored guest here less than two years ago, 'My enemies can take from me no more than my life, and that has already been given...
...jammed the Public Auditorium's ballroom so tightly that suits wilted and hairdos straggled. It was made hotter still by the vociferous opposition to the merger, led by big (6 ft. 4 in.) Dr. James Fifield Jr., 49, pastor of the denomination's largest and most prosperous flock-Los Angeles' 4,526-member First Congregational Church...
...which Mao appeared in simple peasant dress to dance with his wife, Mme. Chu Teh, Mme. Chou Enlai, or pretty Communist office girls. For these occasions, the Communists revived (and revised) an old, gay Chinese dance form called the Yang-ko. Sample: a shepherd is asleep by his flock. A girl in flowing robes enters, dances around him, and wakes him by provocatively brushing the hem of her gown over his face. In the old version, a flirtation then began. In the Red version, she says sweetly: "How can you sleep while foreign imperialists are sucking the blood of your...