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...Donald Williams, 29, an ex-junkie, scuffs the streets of New York City as a panhandler. A former student at North Carolina Central University, he says that he was thrown out because he took part in a student demonstration. Williams' lament: "My values are gone. You're looking at a weird dude, a dude on the borderline of insanity. Every day, it doesn't seem to get better?only worse...
...places many of his own calls when he is in New York, and when Punch travels on business, it is often in the company plane, which is piloted by a man punningly known as Pontius Pilate. He sometimes writes letters to the editor under a pseudonym, most recently to lament the departure of a brewery from the city by encouraging the mayor to "plant an Anheuser-Busch." He signed the letter A. Sock ("A punch, a sock...
Died. Bruce C. Heezen, 53, geologist and oceanographer who charted the ocean floor; of an apparent heart attack; while aboard a submarine, off the coast of Iceland. Heezen, who joined the Lament Geological Observatory when it was founded in 1949, helped discover and map the 47,000-mile-long globe-girdling system of ridges and rifts-a landmark in geology. Heezen also studied the role of turbidity currents (underwater rivers of mud) in shaping the contours of the sea floor, and theorized that glassy particles called tektites in the ocean sediment were the result of the collision of meteorites...
Nostalgia is a fine thing, but Fenway Park, once the quaint sanctum of the national pastime, now has a snazzy electronic instant replay board to keep the spectators from missing anything and moving baseball caps to keep pitchers from walking. Fans can lament the passing of real grass and the batting pitcher, but the Grand Old Game has gone the route of Playboy; the magazine is still around, but the presentation is not quite the same. This is show-biz, folks, less rehearsed and manipulated than TV or the movies, but big-time mass entertainment...
...found it: a polite no. Hesburgh was disappointed-but he had already landed his friend Jimmy Carter as the commencement speaker. The graduation ceremony will be a deliberate show of support for Carter on human rights, one of Hesburgh's passions. Hesburgh will award degrees to Bishop Donal Lament, who was ousted from Rhodesia; Stephen Cardinal Kim, who has fought against government repression in South Korea; and Paul Cardinal Arnes, who has spoken out against human rights violations in Brazil...