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...theater for some cultural uplift, he laughed when he should have cried. One day Yu tried to coax him into reading a book. He snapped: "I've been selected a model worker every year without reading books and newspapers!" That did it. She rushed to the nearest court and filed for divorce. After much publicity and a judge's stern lecture on socialist morality, Yu won her case, in effect on grounds of incompatibility. Said Yu, piously: "To continue a marriage without love is utterly immoral...
...opening 400 medley relay, both the Harvard and Princeton "A" teams were disqualified for an illegal entry card and a false start, respectively. But the Crimson "B" of Julian Bott, Jack Ewing, Rich Kirk and Bob Tyler cruised to the win in 3:38.88, six seconds ahead of the nearest Tiger finisher...
...pair of handsome Arabian horses, a chestnut and a gray, are the Montanas' nearest neighbors and two of their closest friends. When the football year is out (fearing injury, Joe won't ride in season), Cass and Joe can be seen galloping through the buckbrush up and down the peninsula hills, sometimes clear to the ocean six miles off on the horizon. Joe has a great fondness for animals. The two obstreperous dachshunds, Broadway (a tribute to Namath) and Bosley (after Charlie's Angels' major domo) reside underfoot. Says Cass: "Joe will just sit here...
Admirals and generals do not win wars. Presidents do. Consider: Washington (the nearest thing we had to a President during the Revolution), Lincoln, Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt...
Residents of Brookline and Mission Hill--the towns nearest MATEP's Brookline Ave. and Francis St. Boston location--appealed the EPA decision, contending that an energy plant incorporated by Harvard as a for-profit institution failed to qualify for the exemption...