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Obviously, Lovecraft here was exploring those tenebrific estuaries of the occult that had barely been mapped by Jung, Fraser and Arthur Machen. He even equipped the ancient demons with names - mindless Azagoth, Soggoth, Ib, Nyarlathotep and, above all, the great dread Cthulu who, in his sole appear ance, seems to be a "gelatinous green immensity" that slobbers. To recall these alien creatures from their hideous hiding places (the arctic wastes, unfathomable submarine chasms, New Eng land), the intrepid have but to practice rituals recorded in dusty, blasphemous old tomes like the Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred...
...Ib. weight class, RoAnn Costin continued the Lowell House protest against intramural boxing and forfeited to Winthrop's Mike Bernick. Bernick tried to arrange an exhibition match with an ex-girlfriend's boyfriend, but the substitute contest fell through...
...most brutal fight of the day, 185 Ib. Steve Heslinga of Winthrop destroyed Charley Swanson of Mather in a match that was halted in the second round. The experienced Heslinga capitalized on his longer reach and mercilessly pounded Swanson until the crowd shouted to end the fight. Gutty Swanson's face was a red blur by the match's end, but he fought...
Pete Broer, who took the 145 Ib. crown, said yesterday that the protest was disturbing, unjust and misdirected. "The Lowell House protest should be aimed at their House athletic secretary, who is forcing them to participate, and not at the sport of boxing," he said. "It seems to me that he is the real object of such a protest...
...boycott had made its mark. Prices, which held steady early in the week, began to slip in some places, though it is still too soon to tell if the housewives will ultimately succeed. In Chicago, wholesale beef and hog prices dropped a few cents per Ib.; Grand Union Co., the tenth-largest food chain in the U.S., cut the price of beef, pork, lamb and veal by 100 per Ib., and a few other chains also made reductions. Some 200 leaders of the New Majority -housewives, labor-union officials and consumer-group representatives-prepared to go to Washington this week...