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...flyer mailed earlier this month to the parents of Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates, the committee offers an exam period "survival kit" featuring "food for thought" for the student trying to cope with finals...
...could be turned off. Suga could stand on his tiptoes and comb in romance. The bones, really, are quite fine. But Tiegs has had enough of the small, sealed-off world of the studios and high-fashion magazines. This fine-looking, tough-minded California lady has packed her makeup kit and her tennis racket, and taken a deep breath, and is ready to move...
...Rhodesians have developed an aggressive tactical approach to bush warfare. Infantry soldiers in black kit and camouflage are simply dropped off on a main road to walk into the jungle. There they may remain for two or three weeks without relief or resupply, living off the land or out of their rations (including rice and a thick African cornmeal paste called sadza). Whether tracking guerrillas by day or setting up ambush positions at night, the "troopies" communicate by hand signals as they search out foot and boot prints, bowed grass, broken camps or other varieties of "terr spoor," army slang...
MUSICALLY, TOO, it's the off-stage performances that are the best. Browne and Frey do a delightfully drugged-out version of Rev. Gary Davis's "Cocaine," recorded at a Holiday Inn in Edwardsville, Illinois; and Russ Kunkel stars on a makeshift drum kit on "Nothing But Time," a funky traveling song done on the band's Continental Silver Eagle bus "somewhere in New Jersey," the liner notes tell...
...armchairm quarterback (or manager) the year's most interesting gift idea is a biorhythm prediction kit for professional football (or baseball). The charts and tables allow you to plot the biorhythms of the pros, to predict which team will triumph on which particular day. When you reach an advanced stage of the art, the ads say, you can even predict the score. Or at least how well Roger Staubach is getting along with his wife...