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...accident occurred during the Rutgers-Williams and Mary football game, after 25 Chi Psi members drank a grain alcohol mix and cavorted through the stands during the homecoming game. They were participating in a ten-year-old homecoming ritual that includes drinking and dressing up in costumes...
...remark: "He was convinced Hawthorne had all his life concealed some great secret, which would, were it known, explain all the mysteries of his career." Melville, probably still harboring some resentment against the reserved Nathaniel, had his own reasons for making this assertion; yet his statement holds a certain grain of truth...
...Carter cannot shape the world as much as Ronald Reagan believes, but Carter can hurry, nudge, urge, threaten in a thousand ways that can bring change. Thus the pressure was desperate to complete in a few days the deal for selling 6 million to 9 million metric tons of grain to China. The arrival of the Iranian mission at the U.N. sent a delicious shudder through Foggy Bottom. Castro's release of imprisoned Americans was viewed as an effort to soothe troubled waters for whoever wins the Oval Office-but Castro wants Carter. The word leaked out that Armand...
...Middle Eastern oil-a goal that seemed especially worthy last week as the war in the gulf continued. Anderson's opposition to the mobile MX missile and to income tax cuts ran against election-year sentiment, as did his backing of Carter's embargo on sales of grain to the Soviet Union-a stand the Congressman took in Iowa...
...plebe Gerry Grain added a little perspective to the game from the West Point side of things. "This is nothing compared to Navy. We can lose every game of the season and have a successful year if we beat Navy." Then, swigging coke from a paper cup that read, "Beat Navy," he added, "We plebes sure hope we beat Navy. Things around here get a little easier...