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...Over 15,000. When Gene Purdy scored less than two minutes into overtime to vault Harvard past the Huskies, 4-3, severe travellers advisories were already in effect on the highways. I caught the last cab out of North Station, and it cost me $10.00 to make the two mile trip to Cambridge...
...addition, distance sensation John Murphy, bedridden with the flu, is a questionable participant in today's mile and two mile...
Even if he is seen as something of a conservative loony (except for the Reagan supporter who insisted that his plan for a world monetary system proved that "he has a pink streak a mile wide"). Larouche's politics are not that far from much of New Hampshire's. "If You Want to Get Government Off Your Bank and You Hate Drugs, Vote Larouche," the sign in front of his Concord campaign headquarters declares. Whatever their feelings on drugs (limited usually to discussions of "dope" at the high school), most of Farmington couldn't agree more about federal bureaucracy...
...weight: 1. Manny Silverio, N.Y. 62-63/4; 2. Bruce Stirling Boston, 58-2 3/4; 3. Tom Lenz, Boston (Harvard) 57-7; Mile Run: 1. John Murphy, Boston (Harvard), 4:05.82; 2. Paul Steeds. N.Y. 4:06.03. Bill Martin, N.y. 4:06.70; 60 yd high hurdles: 1. Kerry Bethel, N.Y. 7.36; 2. Randy Smith, N.Y. 7.59; 3. Shulton Whitley, N.Y. 7.70; 440-yd. dash: Brian Denman, N.Y. 48.53; Keith Allen, N.Y. 48.54; 3. Mike Ferrari, Boston, 48.77; 600-yd. dash: 1. Brian Grimes, N.Y. 1:10.19; 2. Vince Forte, N.Y., 1:10.62, 3. Derrick Peydano, N.Y. 1:10.63; Shot...
...excrescences in his forthcoming book, Jargon, these terms can fall into the category of "nonverbal verbalizing ... a speech system in which words are used more as images than conceptual symbols." Nonverbal verbalizing (itself an outstanding piece of jargon) flourishes best in its home, Washington, D.C. There, after the Three Mile Island accident gave more mileage to the term, "China Syndrome," Joseph Hendrie, then chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, concluded: "It would be prudent to consider expeditiously the provision of instrumentation that would provide an unambiguous indication of the level of fluid in the reactor vessel." Translation: we need more...