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Several thousand copies of the Harvard Lampoon's Newsweek parody were released in the Boston area last week, a whole week ahead of schedule. Caught by surprise. Lampoon editors complained they were unable to launch the planned media blitz but local proprietors said yesterday sale have been unusually brisk...
...folks as Reader's Digest offer several explanations for their revised Bible Chief among them stands their wish to make the Bible more readable and approachable. "This is a Bible meant for reading, not for study," Metzger recently told Newsweek...
While agreeing that the internal Soviet telephone system urgently needs improvement, Western experts doubt the Soviet explanation. They see the elimination of direct international dialing as part of a general Soviet crackdown on communications with the outside world. Last month the Kremlin expelled Newsweek Bureau Chief Andrew Nagorski, accusing him of unethical journalistic practices. The Soviets arrested several members of an unauthorized "peace group" that was founded in June to press for better relations with the U.S. And last week Yelena Bonner, the wife of dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov, announced that "cruel persecution" had finally destroyed the Moscow Helsinki Watch...
Other campus hijinx included the always hilarious activities going on at 44 Bow St.--home of the Harvard Lampoon. Hard at work on their parody of Newsweek magazine, the Poonies took time out to socialize with the little folks by throwing a huge party and inviting the entire summer school. Advertising posters offered "sex with handsome yucksters," among other attractions Mysteriously, the college comedians backed out at the last minute and kept the lobster and champagne for themselves. The Cambridge police had to be brought in to quell the disappointed crowd which had gathered outside of the Lampoon Castle...
Other campus hijinx included the always-hilarrious activities going on at 44 Bow St.--home of the Harvard Lampoon. Hard at work on their parody of Newsweek magazine, the Poonies took time out to socialize with the little folks by throwing a huge party and inviting the entire summer school. Advertising posters offered "sex with handsome yucksters," among other attractions. Mysteriously, the college comedians backed out at the last minute and kept the lobster and champagne for themselves. The Cambridge police had to be brought in to quell the disappointed crowd which had gathered outside of the Lampoon Castle...