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Those sophomores join a nucleus of 12 returning lettermen, including last season's top point scorer, Mike Turner, and top goal getter, Jeff Kosak. There are six sophomores on the first three lines and the first two defensive pairs...
This switch has made it difficult for the Republican candidate, Missouri Attorney General John Danforth, to get his hooks into Symington. Danforth is a liberal and is regarded as the best Republican vote getter in the state. About the strongest criticism he has of Symington, however, is that he failed to oppose the war early enough. Danforth is running an expensive (he is heir to the Ralston Purina cereal fortune) and active campaign, but without issues it has been a uphill fight. It will be a major upset if he unseats Symington...
...WASN'T always this way. Doug came to Harvard like most other people-the pride of his large public high school, semi-athletic, a go-getter, eager to learn about the cinema. But, during freshman year, he began to notice the audacity, and even stupidity, of certain demands Harvard made on him. When his expose section man asked for a paper comparing Catcher in the Rye and Lord of the Flies, Doug wrote mainly about the covers ("One is red with white type, one is white with red type..."), and the section man nearly flunked him. Soon Doug started...
...disrobe in the privacy of their apartment bedroom and caress each other in ways only indirectly sexual?a gentle stroking of the back, a hand lightly tracing the contours of a thigh. Taking turns is an important part of the therapy. One spouse is the giver, the other the getter of pleasure. The roles are then reversed. In succeeding sessions, the caressing becomes more intimate, until at last the partners explore the full pleasure potential of sexual union. The clinic's approach is to remove, or at least reduce, the pressures that can turn sex into a dreaded command performance...
Nixon was the highest vote-getter in an incompetence poll conducted by the Coop during the introduction of a new book, The Peter Principle: Why things Always go Wrong, by Dr. Laurence J. Peter. In his book, Peter discovers that "in time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties...