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...University of Maryland's fieldhouse is jammed and jumping. As the Terrapins trot onto the court, the 20-piece pep band belts out the Maryland fight song. Cheerleaders somersault into the air. Pompon girls wiggle and wave. Then suddenly an expectant hush falls over the crowd as the public-address announcer booms, "And now . . . heeerrre's Lefty!" Pandemonium again breaks loose, the band strikes up Hail to the Chief and out shuffles Charles Grice ("Lefty") Driesell, the loose, lanky (6ft. 4-in.) Maryland basketball coach. He is wearing a $250 double-knit suit and the "aw-shucks" grin...
...ANGELES--It looked as if they were going to a giant pep rally. Pennant buttons, horns, and cowbells were everywhere to be seen and heard in the Los Angeles International Airport. Loyal fans of the Miami Dolphins and the Washington Redskins arrived continually for the two days prior to the game, beginning the longest weekend in football...
Sale of sleeping pills, pep pills and tranquilizers rises sharply during møfrketiden, and Tromsø has a higher incidence of hard-drug use than any other Norwegian city except Oslo. Illness, most of it psychosomatic, increases, and accidents multiply. In remote areas, young men sometimes adopt a tough-guy, risk-defying attitude. A young construction worker, for instance, may take off in his snowmobile in his shirtsleeves-and freeze to death when the motor stalls in the middle of nowhere...
...than many other Indochina experts. Their testimony in Winter Soldier documents the unique brutality encouraged in young GI's by Vietnam combat and their training at home. In this war atrocities are premeditated and recurring, not isolated aberrations. Marines receive a short lesson in cruelty during their pre-embarkation pep talk, when the company officer strangles a small rabbit, skins it, and throws its carcass at his men. "You can get anything you want out of that," said one former Marine...
Today, with a 4-2 record the Bulldogs are a half game behind frontrunner. Dartmouth and the Harvard contest is vital to the Elis championship aspirations. There is notice for pep talks for Carmen Cozza's squad they know what they must do they have to play rough and pray enough. The prayers are for Penn who plays the Dartmouth Big Green in Philadelphia. There will be a lot of converted Quakers wearing, blue and white uniform today in the Stadium...