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...tall, ruddy-cheeked West German and the pale, intense Frenchman stood outside the monastery church at Birnau, overlooking Lake Constance, near the West German-Swiss border. A Cistercian monk uttered words of welcome. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl lifted his arms to the skies, clear after a daylong rain, and smiled: "Thank you, Prior, for we have been praying all day for the weather to improve." The quip brought a laugh from Kohl's companion, French President Francois Mitterrand...
...pomp and circumstance of this week's reunions and commencement, with its renowned speakers, perfectly mowed lawns, beer trucks, and lobster dinners, will pale in comparison to the events University officials are currently planning for Harvard's 350th anniversary next September...
Once within the Ivy walls, students lived in a luxury which makes today's accommodations pale in comparison. Every Harvard undergrad had his own bedroom, daily maid service, and waitresses to serve him as he selected his meal from printed menus in College dining halls--and all this for a tuition of $400, a room fee averaging $240 a year, and $9,50 a week for meals, according to the Harvard Archives records...
They have just started drinking their coffee, and the driver with the Roadway cap calls over the waitress, telling her there is salt in the sugar he put in his coffee. She is pale, thin, young, has dark circles under her eyes. The truckers have been teasing her, and she doesn't trust them. She dabs a bit of sugar from the canister on a finger and tastes it. Salt. She samples sugar from the other canisters. They have salt too, and she gathers them up to replace them. Someone is hazing her, breaking her into...
...Pale, thin and nervous, Dan Nichols testified that his father had taken the initiative in the alleged crimes as in all else. He offered little that explained how he had become a slave to his father's will. The old- er man, now thin and beardless, offered at least some illumination when he described one of his techniques for persuading his child to follow his own antisocial ways. Said he: "I hit him on the forehead with my fist. I thought that was the safest way--that I'd break my hand before I had hurt him." Nichols admitted...