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...stony-faced Federal Judge John J. Sirica brushed aside all pleas for leniency last week and sentenced the three principal figures in the Watergate conspiracy to at least 2% years in prison. Former Attorney General John Mitchell's face went from pale to a pinkish flush, then pale again, as the grim news hit him. Former Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman scowled in anger. Former Domestic Affairs Adviser John Ehrlichman, his cheeks sunken, looked devastated...
...conniving femmes fat ales, Mata Hari and Delilah pale by comparison to female fireflies of the genus Photuris. Like other fireflies, these nocturnal, winged beetles send out short, rhythmic flashes of light as part of a special signal system that attracts males of the same species. The female Photuris practices a deadly variation of this ritual. It modifies its signal to mimic the flash pattern of different species of fireflies and thus lures unsuspecting males. Once they are in reach, the female devours them...
Ewart Guinier '33, chairman of the Afro Department, addressed the consortium Monday night, calling Harvard "a pale, bloodless, heartless thing" in an apparent reference to the administration's treatment of the institute...
...sympathy for the defendant. There are other assortments in the court room. On late Friday afternoon, as Flanagan began his cross-examination, the kid from The Harvard Crimson sat between a large black man with a stiff mustache who glared at the ceiling, and an effeminate reporter with a pale mustache who scribbled furiously...
...march was supposed to have been for the children. And not much was heard of them. They floated around somewhere in the background, but only as an abstract concept, lingering in the shadow of the ultimate truth the revolution. Perhaps children are too small an issue. Certainly they pale in comparison with revolution. But just give them another ten years. Then we will have a humdinger of a march...