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...regatta, held at the Charles River Basin in a 15 to 20 knot wind, was raced as a team event, in which only two teams are on the water at the same time. Each team has three boats, with the winning team determined by the lower sum of the teams' finishing positions. Harvard finished with the low total in each of its five races...
...docked," Armstrong reported exultantly, "and he's really a smoothie." "Oh, Roger, and congratulations," replied a communicator aboard the tracking ship Rose Knot below in the South Atlantic. "This is real good...
Mayor Collins has come up with a means of cutting this Gordian knot of politics and red tape. The Adinolfi Report, commissioned by Collins and released last week, proposes that a new city agency be formed to plan and construct all municipal buildings. This "Public Facilities Commission" would be appointed by, and solely responsible to, the mayor. It would conduct long range planning, handle all finances, choose architects, and select building sites. It would have a budget immune to amendment by the City Council, and it would be able to bypass city regulatory agencies and float its own bond issues...
...cultural progress lags far behind that of its neighbors in the more popular aspects. Hungary's cocky cabarets are a fond font of Red satire and sensuality. The Budapest Night Club features sleek strippers and dexterous caricaturists, while the riverside Duna Hotel is a terminus for the 60-knot hydrofoil that plies the Danube between Budapest and Vienna, carrying 8,000 tourists a year...
...other people, some of the interviewed said they would often look down at their hand, while on LSD, and see an ugly, clumsy mass which didn't seem to belong to them. Other students said that LSD actually wiped out their identity until they could fade into a knot on the wall and watch humanity pass, performing its insignificant tasks. "LSD," one student said, "is an excuse to sit back and let your imagination go berserk...