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...fourth couple, Trevor (Stephen Moore) and Susannah (Delia Lindsay), a pair of neurotic, egocentric twits who have the instincts of termites when it comes to reducing their friends' relationships to rubble. Trevor yearns to "communicate" though he cannot finish a simple declarative sentence, and Susannah gives herself pep talks on self-confidence with the assurance of a snowball crossing the equator...
Allen Carter, 29, who works for International Transtar, explains that for professional drivers, two chief problems are fatigue and boredom. Truckers fight off sleep with speed and pep pills (known as "pocket rockets"), but stories of dozing at the wheel are not uncommon. The only way to make money on the 2½-day trip from Florida to New York is by driving the 23 hrs. straight through. Carter thinks nothing of leaving Chicago and deadheading home to St. Cloud, Fla., without a break...
...there's something about the Crimson I can't put my finger on. He's not found in attendance figures, athletic scholarships, or pep rallies. At Watson Rink, he can't be found...
...Crimson hosts Brown tomorrow afternoon at the Walter Brown Arena. The game will be televised locally on Channel 7, starting at 2 p.m. The Bruins will probably bring their outrageously clever pep band to the contest, in hope of inspiring their second victory over Harvard this season. SCORE BY PERIODS HARVARD 0 1 2 -- 3 NORTHEASTERN...
That speech started a remarkable policy reversal. To pep up what then looked like a flagging economy, the President had begun the year by calling for a $25 billion tax cut and a $60.6 billion budget deficit in fiscal 1979, which started Oct. 1. As late as March, misled by alarmist predictions from Energy Secretary James Schlesinger that a continued coal strike would cripple national production, Administration aides led by Robert Strauss forced on mine operators a settlement that will raise wages and benefits nearly 40% over three years...