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Junior Theresa Moore won the long jump, while freshman Jane Grim and senior Janet Judge took first and second in the triple jump, The Crimson also took the second, third, and fourth spots in the high jump...
...that history has played itself out in Southeast Asia has considerably complicated some of the old simplisms of the era, and therefore changed some old opinions. The North Vietnamese, whom Prince Souvanna Phouma of Laos once called "the Prussians of Southeast Asia," have imposed a grim, repressive regime throughout the country, but most forcibly upon the South. Ambitious and militaristic and given to a Stalinist style of dogmatism, they have turned the South into a police state. They have even abolished the old National Liberation Front, which they had long billed as the voice of the people in revolutionary South...
...Harvard women simply overwhelmed the weaker Northeastern squad. Jane Grim, Janet Judge, and Mimi Sheller swept the triple jump. Theresa Moore, Dele Fayemi, and Carol Kirton took the top three sports in the 100-yd. dash when the lone Huskie entrant false started...
...grim kind of camaraderie is evident among owners of orphaned computers. Those who cannot afford to scrap their machines or donate them to schools as tax deductions often turn to fellow users for comfort and support. As a result, hundreds of orphan-user groups have sprung up across the U.S., holding meetings in company cafeterias, community centers, classrooms and dens. Members swap tips on software, sources for ever scarcer accessories, and techniques for getting the most out of their discontinued machines...
Nonetheless, the jokes keep on coming. Titters resound even in what are meant to be grim moments: the exposure and imprisonment of one of Eugene's barracks mates as a homosexual; a nervy confrontation between a drunk drill sergeant wielding a loaded pistol and a raw recruit whom the officer despises. The detached Eugene, moreover, proves Arnold's attack true by being offstage during these scenes; he is so passive that the viewer may long for a play that focuses more on Arnold. Inevitably, the sequel lacks some of the roundedness and universality of Brighton Beach: a military stopover cannot...