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...trail. Beneath a tent on a mud-covered field outside Paris, the French Communists dined on sausage, beer and angry denunciations of the country's 10.1% unemployment rate. Meanwhile, in a carpeted convention center on the other side of the city, the far-right National Front feasted on smoked ham, wine and heated accusations of "foreign submersion," a veiled reference to France's burgeoning community of North African immigrants...
...more than 400,000. Sororities, which record no countrywide membership total, have added 131 chapters in the past three years. At the same time, the Greek societies are working hard to overcome the image projected by the 1978 film National Lampoon's Animal House, which portrayed ham-handed initiation rites, sex groupies and boozy car crunching as standard behavior at the frats...
Edmund of Langley (Christian Kanuth) and Henry Bollingbrook (Ben Evett) are best when they ham up their lines. Particularly in Act IV, when the Duchess of York (Rebecca Clark) frantically defends her son, Duke of Aumerle (Debby Farber), from the King, without realizing her son has already been pardoned, Kanuth and Evett are humorous as they become progressively impatient with her persistence and consequently become more cynical...
Pork chops, chicken chops, cabbage, and ham...
Details also emerged of the planning of the U.S. interception, some courtesy of a ham radio operator in Chicago who eavesdropped on one of the six conversations between President Reagan and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. At the time, the two were aloft in separate aircraft, but Weinberger's Gulfstream C-20 transport had not yet been fitted with a scrambler fully compatible with that on Air Force One. "Weinberger made the comment that it may take shots across the bow," the brother of the ham operator told reporters. "The President said, in essence, I don't care what it takes...