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...ones who either stare unwaveringly at the person speaking, lest a sudden swiveled gaze leave vision behind, or hold their heads very high, blinking faster than the speed of light, the better to keep out motes and intruding lashes. Since contacts are cheaper and take less time to grind on the Continent than in England, many Britons have them made to order while vacationing there-and thus are subject to customs duties on the lenses when they come home. According to a possibly apocryphal tale, when one returning Englishwoman swore she had nothing to declare at London airport, the customs...
Parental pressure for grades at Pali is intense; students often retaliate at home by demanding cars, clothes, expensive vacations. "If you aren't aware of the underlying fraud," explains Senior Al Hunsaker, an A student, "then you become a grind. In a way, it's a massive put-on, faking out the community and the family without going through the suffering of a full-fledged revolt." "As long as we don't make waves," a classmate adds, "the administration is happy...
...charts, makes recommendations for major economic moves, and provides a large part of the statistics that the President loves to release. Says Ackley: "The President has learned we can do things no one else can do. He likes the idea of having a group that has no ax to grind...
...without the added jeopardy of university punishment. But the university promptly reopened the dispute by threatening to discipline four student leaders, including Savio, who had organized the demonstration around the police car. Shouted Savio: "This factory does unjust things, and we'll have to cause the wheels to grind to a halt." Then he led the investment of Sproul Hall...
Despite her frenetic Washington activity, Mrs. Bunting talks about her new job with all the girlish enthusiasm of any Cliffie describing her year away from the grind: "I'm doing more reading than I've done for years. The first month I tried to go through everything that came to my desk--staff papers, letters, everything. I found it took a little more than a full day to get through it all--I've since learned to read selectively...