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...last two times it followed that pattern--in 1982 and 1970--its victory in that fourth game of the year came against Cornell...
...Mexico City, an area that is home to 18 million people, life had returned to something akin to normal last week. The most severe damage was confined to a 13-sq.-mi. zone that encompasses the city's business district. Even there, the pattern of damage was quirky. Said Richard Bonneau, a member of a French rescue team that arrived in Mexico City two days after the quake: "We thought we would find one part of the city destroyed. But it's a building here and a building there...
...helter-skelter pattern of devastation left the city studded with contrasts. The capital's tallest buildings, the Pemex Tower (46 stories) and the Latin American Tower (43 stories), both designed to sway flexibly during an earthquake, were untouched. Less than two miles away, between 50 and 60 employees of the TV network Televisa died when their five-story office building collapsed. About half a mile from that calamity, the nine-story Mexican Insurance Co. building was shattered. Next door, office workers lunched calmly last week at the unmarred Great Wall Chinese restaurant...
...retrospect, the Beatnik's chaotic lifestyles and massive drug inhalations that shook some cultural foundations thirty years ago seem rather mainstream today. Even the lifetime chronicled in Kerouac has a definable pattern: Home-City-The Road-City-Home. Kerouac ends right where he began: as other Beats point out, the stabilty of home, his mother and his father is all he sought...
Each job has been different, but the pattern remains the same. On the first day of work, I find I have been given a special duty not described in my contract, like graverobbing or defusing bombs. On the second day, I learn the first day was a piece of cake. It goes downhill from there...