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...tell his bodyguard in advance." Stalin refused to eat anything until someone else first tried it. He would say: "Look, here are the giblets, Nikita. Have you tried them yet?" Khrushchev, knowing that his host wanted some for himself but was afraid to be first, would reply, "Oh, I forgot." The only member of his circle exempt from this tasting ritual was NKVD Chief Lavrenty Beria, who ate only food transported from his own dacha...
...forgot about the game, until Sunday night when one of the members of the Bunny suicide squad told me about the encounter. "The guys are really psyched for this one," he said. "We're really going to beat them...
...about a two hour rest after a three and one half hour bus ride, the Crimson at tack in the early minutes did not resemble the kind of soccer Harvard fans have gotten accustomed to seeing during these past two seasons. Passes were flubbed, and some of the players forgot that they had teammates...
...Harvard was supposed to be this year, there was little doubt that Northeastern was worse-until the kick-off. The Crimson offense ran true to Woody Hayes's maxim "three yards in a cloud of dust," but it forgot the three yards. After ten minutes, it looked like our long gainer this season was a fake punt. When we ran an end sweep, people thought Blankenship was shifting over to lone...
...regimen Plimpton was in no hurry to establish was that of marriage. When he finally took the plunge-"a tremendous leap into a swimming pool of cold water," as he describes it-he almost forgot to tell the bride, who "really was," she admits, "among the last to know." Though the license had been acquired days in advance, the actual decision was not made until the morning of the wedding day itself. "He had been agonizing for a long time," explains Freddy, 29, who is blonde, green-eyed and a "knockout," in the dispassionate appraisal of one of George...