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...pattern of rural migration. We used to have kids leaving town in their tuxes on graduation night. Now we got them coming here from Viet Nam and staying. You've got to decide whether you want someone else telling you what to do, or whether you want to grab a corner of the land and make a piece of history for yourself...
...wind began to pick up and the light-124-pound-Reeve ran into trouble. But Bossett was not doing superbly, and with seven races completed Reeve was in second place by a point. Reeve managed only a seventh in the final race, while Bossett took a third to grab second place overall...
Passionate. According to the Government, a reply by Father Berrigan termed the project "brilliant but grandiose." Kidnaping any more than just Kissinger, said this letter, would require too much manpower. Continued the letter: "Why not grab the Brain Child, treat him decently but tell him nothing of his fate -or tell him his fate hinges on release of political] people or cessation of air strikes in Laos. Then have batteries of movement people-Brain Child blindfolded-engage him on policy. Get it filmed and recorded. One thing should be implanted in that pea brain-that respectable murderers like himself...
Yale's Chase Sanderson, playing on his home course, shot a 74 to grab medallist honors. Skip Barry was able to muster only a 78 for the Crimson's top individual score...
LESSON THREE. Fight dirty. In screaming, full-page newspaper ads and proxy mailings, Milstein's faction has accused the management of setting up a stock-option plan that became a "grab bag" for senior officers, and of using $600,000 of company funds to solicit proxies to re-elect itself. The company has retaliated with allegations that one of the challengers is a director of a firm in competition with GAP, that another bought his first 100 shares of stock only a few weeks ago, and that Milstein "has not been employed in a full-time job since December...