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...were so busy reciting and saluting at mealtime that they went hungry and lost weight. The more famished cadets were known to eat toothpaste for bulk. Now, after a typical West Point reform, plebes are ordered to eat. "It isn't milk and cookies," insists Cadet First Captain Timothy Knight, the ranking cadet who is also known as the King of Beasts. "Plebes still feel the heat." Many find it too much to bear. Almost one-third of each class drops out, or is thrown out, before graduation...
...former chairman of a Beatrice acquisition, offered nearly $5 billion for Beatrice, which last month rejected the bid. Now Beatrice (fiscal 1985 sales: $12.6 billion) may be turning to outsiders for help. Said one Chicago lawyer: "Their investment bankers are burning up the phone lines looking for a white knight...
Some gags work: a peasant crosses the stage with a bale of hay just as a rousing, Fiddler on the Roof-style chorus line points and shouts, "Hey!" Some gags--the choleric knight who gets his arms and legs cut off--worked better onscreen. But Idle's runaway hit musical based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail has a rowdy, anything-goes spirit as well as two memorable numbers: You Won't Succeed on Broadway ("if you don't have any Jews") and the infectious Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. You have to be a Python...
...Silver Plan: Lawyers from Harvard Law School will be to Bechtel as ‘Nam was to Lieutenant Dan, only this time Forrest Gump will be as fast as a member of the Advocate on horse tranquilizer. Can you say “black knight from Monty Python...
...latter-day Santa Claus." RONALD ROSS, Texas Tech University basketball player, praising his famously irascible coach, Bobby Knight. Texas Tech was later eliminated from the U.S. collegiate "Sweet 16" in a game in which Knight shouted in Ross' face and swatted his behind after bad plays