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DARTMOUTH-HOLY CROSS--Oh, Dad, Poor Dad, Jake's A-Hanging in the Closet and We're Feeling So Sad. My ass. I've enough pent-up resentment against Big Green superiority over the last four years not to flinch if Dartmouth repeats last week's UNH loss eight more times this season. Rick Klupchak is out for this one, and Holy Cross is better than UNH. Vomit is Green. Holy Cross 20, Dartmouth...
...reservations about its chances for success. The latest wage-price control program in the Nixon Administration's 23-month alternately hot and cold war against high living costs is a temporary holding action. It is designed to stem the spread of food shortages while partially holding off the pent-up forces of inflation until they are weakened by waning demand (see box next page...
...drivers in last week's contest between the Vasco da Gama and America teams were typical of the heterogeneous lot attracted to autobol. One was a cab driver obviously venting pent-up aggressions, while two others were doctors who drove as if they were bent on drumming up some business. Though no one has yet been killed in autobol, bruises and broken ribs are regularly dished out by such cunguceiros (bad guys) as Vasco da Gama's Walter Lacet, a director of TV soap operas...
There is no drug problem; at least, nothing worse than we have had throughout history. There is indeed a drug panic, but it bears a close resemblance to "Bung" Karno's war against Borneo; the pent-up aggression of a frustrated people in search of an enemy more tangible than their own frustrations. Now, when I am asked about the advisability of having a "real drug addict" talk about his tribulations, I add that, to be fair, they really ought to have a child molester along to give a paean on the desirability of five-year-old girls. The grand...
...girls' education was random. Their parents taught them the subjects they knew, which meant that Virginia counted on her fingers for life. Clara Pater, Walter's sister, dropped by to dispense a little Greek. Eventually, however, Sir Leslie opened his vast library to his daughters and Virginia's pent-up intellect found release...