Word: packs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Astonished Teachers. More than ever, Wayne's students are after an education, not prestige or parties (only 5% belong to fraternities and sororities). They pack talks by such visitors as Dame Edith Sitwell and Poet Karl Shapiro, snap up tickets for the touring New York Metropolitan Opera, jam campus productions of Shakespeare and Chekhov. The athletic department (budget: $55,000) is overwhelmed if a football game draws 1,500 spectators. "They seem to think culture is part of their education, and not just something they should do," says one faculty member. "They're paying their way through college...
...Poacher's Daughter (Show Corp. of America), being a rustic Irish comedy, is a pack of lies; white lies, green lies, slick, sly, funny lies, and every one as harmless as the tines of a well-sharpened hayfork. Adapted from George Shiels's play called The New Gossoon,* the film is lifted off the green sod by the main strength of its cast: the Abbey Theater players and their American guest, Actress Julie Harris...
...that hammered at the doors of nearly a thousand homes in France between 5 and 6 one morning fortnight ago turned out to be those of French policemen. Once inside, the cops informed their victims-refugees from a score of nations-that they had 20 minutes to dress and pack for an enforced trip to Corsica. At the request of Soviet officials, the French government had decided to clear Metropolitan France of "potential assassins" before Nikita Khrushchev arrived in Paris. And presumably they would now have to wait out Khrushchev's postponement as well...
Adults and schoolchildren downed the mixture at a gulp. For infants, the vaccine was usually put in a plastic teaspoon, sterile from a fresh pack. The teaspoon was thrown away after...
...stop Chamberlain, the pros have tried every trick in the book. They may double-team him (one man in front, one behind) with the hope of blocking off passes. When Chamberlain does get the ball, the defense swirls about him like a pack of hounds circling a bear...