Word: hiatus
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Victor Scott Keppel, 23, a dropout who spent two years on the Avenue before returning seriously to his studies, recalls his hiatus as a fast-moving kaleidoscope of LSD, drinking, faceless girls, and empty days. "The nonstudent life tastes like peanut butter, stale bread and leftover booze," he says. As for sex, "there were a few beatnik chicks that were wailing, but the volume didn't match the myth." At talk sessions, "everybody was very bored and very boring. There was something there, but I couldn't tell what it was. I took a closer look-and found...
...hiatus in the schedule couldn't come a moment too soon. Although the Crimson should eviscerate Dartmouth tonight, Saturday's horrible 70-58 loss to Brown clearly indicates that the millennium in Harvard basketball is not at hand...
Despite the allegations of Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) to the contrary, on this coming Monday morning there will be absolutely no Crime in the streets. But the hiatus is only for a day; on Tuesday, and afterward, in your heart you know we'll write...
Another serious condition that can be mistaken for simple heartburn is a hiatus hernia-a defect in the diaphragm where the gullet (esophagus) passes through, just above the stomach. This permits part of the stomach to poke upward into the chest cavity and spill digestive juices into the gullet. Pope Pius XII suffered from a hiatus hernia for a long time before it was correctly diagnosed and treated, and the condition is by no means rare...
WHEN THE CHEERING STOPPED, by Gene Smith. During the last 17 months of his presidency, Woodrow Wilson was crippled mentally and physically by a stroke, but his wife hid his true condition. Reporter Smith re-creates the time and assesses the political effects of the long hiatus in the White House...