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...that the period 1954-58 was not, to put it mildly, a time of campus unrest or even great social shakeups. Segal makes up for this with painstaking accounts of such bygone rigors as the Step Test and the Swim Test, while ignoring real campus news like the hockey heyday of Bob (really '58) and Bill ('56) Cleary (who did make it into Love Story...
Many farmers admit that they plunged too heavily into debt in the heyday of the 1970s, planting their fields from fence post to fence post. But they argue that that was precisely what federal bureaucrats and local bankers urged them to do. They reject the argument of Budget Director David Stockman that they are to blame for their troubles. "I'd like to get about 15 minutes behind the barn with that dude," says Tom Kersey, 45, a Georgia farmer who helped lead "tractorcade" protests to Washington...
...became the epitome of preppiedom and led to the opening of 33 boutiques across the country. But after nearly two decades of cachet, Pulitzer has fallen out of style and into the red. Last week her company, which had sales of more than $10 million a year in its heyday, filed for bankruptcy in order to receive protection from creditors. The firm will close six of its 26 remaining shops...
...Western aid distributed by the Catholic Church. Jerzy Popieluszko, painfully frail and thin, introduced me to his parishioners, calming their fears about talking to a Western journalist. It was only a few months after the imposition of martial law, and the national spirit that had soared during the heyday of Solidarity had been crushed by Polish soldiers and police...
...Eloquence Converse Francis lived there in the 1840's, and Boston publishing magnate John Allyn occupied the then-mansion in the 1880's. The Francis-Allyn House, characteristic of the Greek Revival architecture sweeping New England after the rediscovery of the Acropolis, featured an elaborate portico entrance in its heyday...