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...remember my last year at Harvard. I had come up early for some reason and was sitting behind those huge vulgar cream pillars at Memorial Church or Appleton Chapel. Some new boy came across the Yard with an armload of records and a German helmet on his head. A group of freshmen were on the other side of the pillar...
...Christ's sake. I thought, what was wrong with these people? What was it all for, anyway. Who was this kid to be wearing a German helmet? Who were they not to know what...
...sport is not for the faint of heart or the weak of wallet. Skates can cost upwards of $100, gloves $65, shin pads $35, protective pants $50, helmet $22, elbow pads $20, shoulder pads $25, a stick $8, and other accessories $25. The parents of a small-scale Bernie Parent have to shell out even more. Goalie leg pads alone cost up to $150. Yet even in the depths of recession, business has never been better. At the Boston Bruins Pro Shop, sales of equipment are up 57% over last winter. At Atlanta's Igloo Ice Skating Rink, parents...
Virginia Polytechnic Institute Freshman Gardner Britt, 18, must have been playing football without his helmet. An article in the January Ladies' Home Journal implied that he was more or less engaged to President Ford's daughter Susan, 17-not that she was so special. "I don't think she will do anything spectacular," he opined, suggesting that Susan herself was antifeminist. "She's not like some of those Miss Teenage Americas who always have some fancy career in mind-like nursing." Added Chauvinist Britt: "A job is all right if women can do an equal...
...attired Indians after announcing: "There's something obscene about dressing up and inviting a lot of rich people to raise money for the Indians." Paparazzo Ron Galella, who was felled last year by Brando in a street scuffle, had got dressed up too; he appeared in a football helmet garnished with a feather. The organizers hoped to raise $15,000 but, as one lonely Yakima surveying the shambles said, "There are many bad spirits here." ∎ With a cobra's speed, a jaguar's ferocity and the imagination of a Lenny Bruce, General Idi Amin Dado...