Word: peps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Psyched by a pep talk from coach Keith Raffel, the 'Cliffe waterballers set out for a rally. Freshman Jane McNamara converted a pass early in the second quarter for a score...
...first stop, at 7 a.m., was the studios of television station WHEC, where Eddie Meath, a local talk-show personality, asked if Carter used pep pills to keep going. Carter, a Baptist deacon who has sworn off even his occasional Scotch-and-soda during the campaign, smiled and said no. By 9:15, he had met with a group of would-be New York delegates in the Genesee Room of the Americana Hotel, talked with local civic leaders in the Corinthian Room, addressed a $10-a-plate breakfast in the main ballroom (he netted $500) and convened a press conference...
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...