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John R. Silber, president of Boston University and another loser, said yesterday that he had already written Bennis to announce the mailing of half a dozen live lobsters, "six little green beasties from the North Atlantic that will obligingly take on the colors of Cincinnati when properly immersed in boiling water...
...their loyalty that was frenetically attacked. They were railroaded out of the Foreign Service, or at best shunted off to obscure posts far from Asia. Their salient fault was to have reported on China as they saw it: America's ally, Chiang Kaishek, looked to them like a loser in 1944, and the Communists, with their grass-roots appeal, like winners. Later, during the early 1950s, the investigators willfully confused prediction with preference until it became plausible to say, as one of them did, that the Foreign Service officers "planned to slowly choke to death and destroy the government...
...Doug Peach. He thinks that Rubery Owen employees might be more interested in producing if they were not trapped among the depressing relics of wartime plant and machinery. Says Peach: "I was sure that I would have liked to have been a loser in the last war when I went to Volkswagen for four days in Germany and saw the batteries of machinery the U.S. had given them.* I could look along and see presses as far as I could see at Volkswagen; and when I look at Rubery Owen, I think if there is anything that didn...
...Open Door, a beer-drinking football player who took his boys out to girls' colleges on weekends. The two rarely spoke. A freshman from Thayer described a blow-by-blow battle of sexual rivalry between his proctors, one of whom was quite a stud and the other a real loser. The dorm laughed far into the night...
...totally unhelpful--he was always telling the girls to lose weight. He basically ignored us unless we were exceptionally good-looking. You have enough problems freshman year without that." A freshwoman who lived in a mixed entry conceded that her proctor had been a nice guy, but a complete loser when it came to dealing with eighteen-year-old women. "He was very popular with the guys in the dorm--mainly, I think, because they were flattered to drink beer and play touch football with a 28-year-old grad student. All he could manage to say to us women...