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...second thought, it might not be fair to say the Crimson offense was incoherent, because it spent most of the game playing defense. And though the defense was lackluster, the team showed its determination by playing the exhausting man-to-man pattern throughout the game...
...area of arms, a shameful pattern of cooperation develops, with the U.S. role growing ever more pronounced. In May 1971, Israel volunteered to replace three crashed South African warplanes. In 1973, the head of South Africa's Bureau of State Security (BOSS) visited Israel (9) BOSS is known internationally for what can only be Gestapo-like practices of spying on citizens, torture, imprisonment without trial, and outright murder of South African Blacks. It is among the most feared and hated secret police forces in the world...
...many thefts have taken place at Blodgett Pool. Richard J. D' Amico, the chief investigator on the case said yesterday. He said there appears to be a pattern to where the stolen cards are used, and investigators are trying to link the thefts to a known cred't-card stealing ring in New Hampshire...
Tens of millions have read it, in 62 languages: the story of Winston Smith, a minor bureaucrat in the totalitarian state of Oceania. War with the world's two other superpowers, Eurasia and Eastasia, is constant, although the pattern of hostilities and alliances keeps changing. Smith works at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting old newspaper stories to conform to current Party ideology. He uses the official language, Newspeak, a version of English being pared down to make unorthodox opinions impossible to conceive. Privacy has vanished. Waking and sleeping, Smith and all Party members are observed by two-way telescreens...
...host of the $250-a-head benefit. Also present were three of the camera's best friends: Brooke Shields, 18, Cheryl Tiegs, 36, and Christie Brinkley, 28. Compared with Tiegs in a floor-length chinchilla and Brinkley in black leather, Shields in a modest pattern-made dress looked like the college freshman she is. Not that the Princetonian is always averse to putting on the glitz: recently she agreed to the use of her name on a line of platinum jewelry...