Word: goldfish
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...nothing else, the summer seems to have been a chastening lesson for some of the minority students on the goldfish bowl that is Harvard University. Like it or not, how Harvard students dress, what they say, and what becomes of their ivy may at any minute become national headlines. And the fact that they continue to be taught by white males just might not. This fall, you can bet that minority groups at the Law School won't say a whole lot about Jack Greenberg being white. But you can also bet they won't stop talking about how white...
...greatest meal he ever had catered, Manning claims, was coming out of Shanghai after President Nixon's 1972 visit to China. That historic trip had been a seemingly endless sequence of banquets with Chinese delicacies: shark's fin, goldfish in white sauce. The return to the U.S., arranged by flight crews from Guam, was fueled by McDonald's burgers, French fries and milkshakes...
...bottles hold goldfish and pickles. The EKG machine beeps out themes from Rocky, Jaws, Close Encounters and Pac-Man. The chief pathologist tells his students: "There are more than 20 bodily fluids, and I am proud to say I have tasted every one of them." A poodle and a boxer, both wearing yarmulkes, sit mournfully by the graveside of one Spot Moskowitz. Steven Ford, once a President's son, now a soap-opera regular, gets bopped on the head with a food tray. "Attention," a metallic voice announces over the hospital speaker system, "E.T., phone home...
...kicker--It depends who his Secret Santa is; ROY ROBERTS, rugby captain--Peace on Earth and goodwill towards men and women; DEBBIE KALISH, women's tennis--a year's supply of coffee frappes and bagels with cream cheese from the Eliot House Grille; TERRY FRICK women's swimming--a goldfish; DAVE COATSWORTH. Classics concentrator and men's volleyball--To see Reagan impeached; LAMAR FLATT, men's basketball--A bag of tricks and a behind the back pass like Calvin Dixon's while looking into the stands: CALVIN DIXON, men's basketball--A partridge in a pear tree: GWEN GORMAN...
...increasingly that transport is done by air. Every day 800,000 passengers, 60% of them business travelers, settle down, buckle up and take off aboard 14,000 scheduled commercial flights, both domestic and international. In addition, 10,000 tons of air cargo containing everything from computer parts to goldfish are carried to destinations near and far. The immediate result is more than $30 billion per year in revenues to the airlines, and jobs for 340,000 employees, ranging from ticket clerks to mechanics to pilots and cabin attendants...