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Thursday night 1000 Yale students marched behind the Yale band through the old campus for a pep rally. Carmen Cozza, the Eli coach, delivered a crowd-pleasing victory speech. (Can you imagine Joe Restic in a situation like that?) Needless to say, the pep rally culminated with a burning of John Harvard in effigy...
...were regarded by their father Martin, a high school English teacher in Palmdale, Calif., as "good right-wing Republicans who got up every morning and pledged allegiance to the flag." Steve was a crew-cut football hero in high school. Kathleen was a church youth leader and an energetic pep squad member. And Josephine once wanted to be a nurse. Martin Soliah believes that his mistake was sending them to college in California, where they were initiated into radical politics. Now his hopes are pinned on his one remaining son. Says Soliah: "We tried three kids in California schools...
...help to catch an offender, but are usually not needed to convict him. And when an informer does testify, courts tend not to be bothered if he is guilty of seamy behavior. In 1973 the Supreme Court swallowed substantial involvement by a federal agent in the manufacture of methamphetamine pep pills (speed) because the other plotter had demonstrated that he was already disposed to commit the crime. Actual entrapment, however, is banned. The only other major prohibition is against using an informer to infiltrate a legal defense. That would, of course, violate the defendant's constitutional right...
...When we felt rejected and lonely she'd cheer us up with her own combination of feminism and experience. She did for us what most of the male proctors have been doing for male freshmen for a long time--she bathed our wounded social egos with pro-female pep talks. Her insights were all the more valuable because she was older...
...Ford workers on indefinite layoffs had been reduced to 14,800 from a February peak of 35,000. He added: "We hope to get it down to zero as soon as the market recovers. Most will be back by next year." To economists in Michigan, that was industry pep talk. They note that Michigan's slight July improvement in unemployment (down to 14.2% from 15% in June) was due in part to youths who stopped looking for work and thus were not counted among the unemployed...