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Local Totem. Superficially, I.V. still has the old hippie beguilement. Barefoot boys and braless girls pedal past on bicycles, mill joyously on the streets, hang around the local totem-an American flag-topped heap of wooden planks and tree trunks known as "the earth art market...
Five teams appear to be grouped at the top of the heap in Eastern hockey, including Harvard, B. U., Clarkson, Cornell, and R. P. I. "Beating Brown by more than five goals," predicted Driscoll, "would probably keep us ranked number...
...medical team in the Noakhali district told of coming upon a tumble of "eight corpses and hundreds of carcasses. Suddenly, in this grotesque heap, a naked woman's broken body shuddered slightly." The team removed the woman, and managed to restore her to consciousness. Many of the living were almost crazed. At one point, an American helicopter bearing U.S. Ambassador Joseph S. Farland and 10-lb. sacks of rice, molasses and salt was nearly torn apart when it landed among starving Bengalis, who rushed the Ambassador and grabbed at the sacks. As the pilot swung into the air again...
...game, played primarily by onetime American college stars who couldn't cut it in their homeland. The British Commonwealth and certain nations associated with its cultural tradition indulge in a footballish sport called rugby, which seems to consist in considerable part of beefy mesomorphs huddling in a heap called a "scrum" and jostling each other for possession of the ball. Throughout most of the non-American world, football means soccer. It is finally beginning to catch on in the U.S., which may be a good thing, but to unsensitive unenthusiasts it is still a low-scoring charade involving...
...college channeling system provides, we also have the necessity of creating our own lives. The ones that have been planned for us have already been lived, and there is no sense for us to follow their futile path, carrying our cog's worth of American culture to the scrap heap. In exchange for having to live through some of the greatest horrors the world has ever seen, we are left to our creativity to find our own left to our creativity to find our own direction...