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...secular self-mortification. On-topic debaters all over the country argue a single consequential issue for a year. Off-topic debaters, who suddenly outnumber the on-topic traditionalists on most Northeast campuses, flit from one ephemeral subject to another every hour or so, allowing themselves only ten minutes to muster each case. Success at on-topic demands fetishistic research, note cards by the hundred gross and the rhetorical felicity of an armored truck. Off-topic debate, by contrast, is meant to be a cross between Groucho Marx and Daniel Webster. It rewards insult, parry and bluster. The judges' instructions...
...well as the big boys at State and Defense. In fact, he has succeeded in making his policies, his picture and his off-color remarks a regular feature of the daily papers. By contrast, the most exposure his predecessor the capable and effective Cecil V. Andrus, could ever muster consisted of a couple of TV commercials promoting potatoes...
Nothing short of divine intervention could have saved the Big Red (1-5 in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League (EISL)) from the mercy killing. Even with the aquamen trying to-qualify for Easterns in events they hadn't yet qualified in. Cornell could only muster two wins in a 16-event expanded meet. Harvard grabbed the other 14 first-place finishes and swept up second spot in seven of those events...
Aside from being outscored by 33 points, Harvard was also outclassed by Yale in all other statistical categories. The Bulldogs shot a laudable 54 per cent from the floor while Harvard could only muster a 28-per-cent ratio. The Crimson also dished out a mere four assists, while Yale managed to accumulate 16. And the Elis pulled off three more steals than did the frustrated Crimson defense. Most importantly, Harvard seemed unable to box out and compete under the boards, as Yale grabbed 46 rebounds to the Crimson...
...improved by spring, Dole says, then G.O.P. congressional leaders will have to go to Reagan and persuade him to trim his sacred defense budget and propose new taxes. Should the White House still not act, it will be even more difficult, if not impossible, for the Republican leadership to muster the votes to raise the debt ceiling when that becomes necessary this summer. Laments Republican Senator Pete Domenici, chairman of the budget committee, in a decided understatement: "It's obviously going to be a very difficult year...