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Remember David and Goliath? The New York Jets and the Baltimore Colts? The New York Mets? Princeton's varsity soccer team has been studying that moral all week, and the Tigers are planning to apply for the part at 10:30 a.m. when they face the Crimson on Cumnock Field in the final home game of the season...
Princeton will probably also start with a kamikaze attack in the opening minutes. If the Crimson can hold the Tigers, Harvard will remain undefeated. But remember, Goliath lost in the opening minutes...
Members receive, free of charge, an I.S.A.D.P.M. identification card decorated with a red slingshot, symbolic of David's battle with Goliath. They also get a year's subscription to Matusow's anticomputer newsletter, which he plans to start publishing soon. For 6s., they can get a copy of his 125-page The Beast of Business, a handbook of guerrilla tactics for computer haters that might have been conceived by Che Guevara...
...Early Guerrilla. David defeated Goliath, Gale adds, because he possessed fire power-meaning a primitive but effective missile-plus "the courage, the skill and the brains to use it." David might be considered an early prototype of the socially conscious guerrilla fighter, "cultivating friendship with the local people, who were happy to have a protector against the marauding Philistine tribesmen, even if for this he demanded tribute. He foraged far and wide, bringing retribution where it was due and giving succour where it was needed." Even in one of the most tragic defeats of Hebrew history-the futile defense...
...Senate subcommittee hearing to determine whether Detroit's car manufacturers are sufficiently safety-conscious, and Ralph Nader a young lawyer of Lebanese descent, is there to repeat his belief that they are not. To the subcommittee members, Nader presents a fascinating figure-a David to Detroit's Goliath. "Why are you doing all this, Mr. Nader?" one of the Senators asks. "I became in a sense incensed," Nader replies in the convoluted courtroom language that is his customary way of speech, "at the way there can be a tremendous amount of injustice and brutality in an industrialized society...