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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fortnight ago, everything was ready. Hoare's plan was to send a diversionary column of 100 mercenaries under Major Alastair Wicks up the road from Albertville in the south while his main assault force-160 men-stormed ashore from an "invasion fleet" composed of one ancient gunboat, the lake steamer Urundi, two barges and five patrol boats. His code name for the mission was "Operation Banzai...
...main difference is the academic atmosphere. Whether it's because Dean Griswold's description of the omnipresence of law was taken as a directive by first-year students or because everyone realizes he's now professional school--that it's for the subject of law is everywhere in the dorms, at Harkness Commons, at Lincoln's Inn (a student restaurant-social club), and even at parties...
...really bothered about the plot, though; it served mainly as an excuse for the gags and production numbers. There were two main types of gags--in-jokes and out-jokes. And there were two types of in-jokes--in-in-jokes and out-in-jokes. Now your average, knowledgeable Harvard man could get most of the out-in-jokes (those concerning "Operation Snatch," or the speed of "Prince Tun's tiger"), but with in-in-jokes he was at a loss...
...electric guitars and banjos as part of the folk-rock trend, lifted the men's cosmetics industry to a $35 million business in recent years, is buying more jewelry than ever. He looks less at the price tag nowadays than at quality, fashion, style, color. The biggest new main-line item is the color-TV set. Stores are selling all they can get-and in some cases letting go sets that they were saving for Christmas. RCA's David Sarnoff last week predicted that sales this year will hit 2,500,000. The TV-set and TV-tube...
...main function of the Young Democrats is to provide a free, enthusiastic force to man mimeo machines, to distribute leaflets, to babysit for voting mothers, and to secure the young lovelies in straw hats and striped blazers who decorate every campaign bandwagon. The rhetoric of their gatherings is usually cliched and the issues only token...