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...middle-class New Yorkers trudged to outfit their children before each school season. Now, commuting between down-tower office on 19 and cloudland condominium on 48, errant Olympians face only one major problem: how to convince suspicious spouses that they were caught for two hours in a traffic jam...
...protest, farmers throughout the country have been creating havoc. On the major highway to Spain, a thousand fruit growers dumped tons of pears onto the roadway, creating a twelve-mile traffic jam. In Le Havre, Norman peasants stopped dockers from unloading beef from an Argentine ship and, in a variation of the old Boston Tea Party, threw tons of the meat into the Channel. In other areas farmers hung dead chickens in front of local officials' homes, let pigs and cattle loose in village streets, and even halted the sacrosanct Tour de France bicycle race by covering the road...
...mansions and 800-acre ranches. The rhythm of their lives, private and professional, has settled down to moderato. Loud fracases and nocturnal revelries no longer conclude their day's work. Groupies, once omnipresent, are rare. After a recent Oakland concert, Stills, on his way to an informal jam with some members of the Grateful Dead, was accosted by one persistent young lady. To turn her off, he launched into a monologue on the virtues of family living. "Can I stay with you tonight," she insisted, "please, please?" Blinking several times, Stills wearily focused on the girl and made...
Damascus' understandable determination to celebrate "the liberation of Quneitra" added more confusion to an already massive logistical problem. Thousands of Baath party faithful, as well as plain sightseers, trucked and bused toward Quneitra, their vehicles festooned with Syrian flags and homemade banners. A traffic jam several miles long stalled hundreds of official limousines, military vehicles, donkey carts and trucks piled with returning refugees, stoves, bedrolls and furniture. Red-bereted military police struggled to bring order out of chaos, occasionally shooting their AK-47 automatic rifles into the air to get attention. Reminders of the October fighting were plentiful. Occasionally...
...disastrous frame came in the fourth inning against Northern Colorado, when Harvard's vaunted defense sprang terminal leaks. After an infield error and a sacrifice, an easy fly ball to center-fielder Leon Goetz turned a routine jam into a disaster. Goetz dropped the ball for the inning's second error, then picked it up and threw to relay man Rick LaCivita. Catcher Dan Williams couldn't find the handle on LaCivita's perfect strike to the plate and Northern Colorado had a two-run stake...