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...first glance the poblaciones or shantytowns of Penalolen appear to be a desolate, stagnant world far from the bustling, metropolitan center. Small houses, shacks and lean-tos of cardboard and corregated tin crowd together along unpaved streets that turn to impassable floods of mud in the winter. Delinquents hang out on the highway edging the shantytowns, passing a joint and listening to salsa on a battered radio, casting hostile glances at passers...
...special. Mud-covered young alumni, drinking themselves silly, throwing beer on each other and then reassuring themselves that they are special. And then staggering over their drunken buddies to get to the bathroom in the Winnebago...
Well, not exactly. There are, however, some public health and safety problems to be considered. And we ought to reconsider whether our definition of fun includes lying outside in a pool of mud and vomit...
BETWEEN 1:45 AND 4 P.M. today 57,000 otherwise steady individuals will blow their tops. The mud flats of Soldiers Field will tremble under the poundings and stampings of the huge audience, and the groans and yips will travel downstream on the Charles. The gentleman who yesterday called the Harvard-Yale game stuff for kids will overnight turn into the noisiest and naughtiest kid in the territory. After the game, the breath of liquor will hang over the Square like a smog; blond hair and strapless backs will glitter through the night; and Cambridge, seat of culture, will...
Whatever the case, no petition candidates have been elected in the last two years, and recent overseers' elections have been almost uncannily quiet after a decade of controversy and mud-slinging...