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Yesterday marked the second attempt by members and supporters of Hospital Workers Union 1199 to interrupt Zuckerman's class on Urban Land Development and Economics at Gund Hall at 10 a.m. on Friday. Their first attempt two weeks ago, was thwarted by Zuckerman's cancelling his class...
Professional oenophiles, who make, market or write about wine, are an elite of cultured globetrotters. Often foreign born or foreign educated, they jet about the world constantly, moving from one vineyard to another in search of new tastes and bouquets. Vintners treat them like pashas. Wine pros frequently interrupt their travels to get together for comparative wine tastings (during which they seldom swallow the wine, but slosh it around in their mouths and spit it out; they can taste dozens of wines at a sitting without getting high...
...interrupt here. Anex, there seems to be some sort of commotion down on the field. It's time for the kickoff, but nothing's happening. The Harvard band refuses to leave the field. They're staging some sort of protest or something down there. It looks like we'll be held up indefinitely. Why don't we look at some of the other strong points for Harvard athletics...
...repeat that this strike--the form of which will be determined by students at different campuses--is not a strike against the universities. It is a strike against the war. Classes need not be cancelled, exams need not be forgotten, but students here and across the country must interrupt their placid college lives to deliver once again the ultimatum to the Nixon Administration: You cannot expand the war in Asia without risking massive protest at home...
...VOICE intones, while the Presidential seal flashes on: "We interrupt this program for a message from the President." "I don't want to be in Vietnam," the President whines. "The Vietnam war..." --he searches for a perfectly clear description--"...is like a pebble in my shoe; it's like blowing a wet fart..." "America has balls..."--again he looks for the perfect phrase--"...and if any of you out there take offense at that you can go take a flying shit...