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FROM WHAT WE can gather today, life in the Dark Ages was no picnic. You had your disease, your ignorance, your intermittent famine. There was little interracial sensitivity. Trees seemed to have lacked leaves altogether, and you could never get the muck off your shoes, even indoors. Kings were greedy and whined a lot. At the first sign of trouble, they threw up their hands and sacrificed a virgin or two. The peasants, weakened by long hours of hunting for roots and small rodents, mustered little culture of their own, preferring to spend their weekends puttering around the hovel...
DIED. Arthur O'Connell, 73, veteran character actor twice nominated for Academy Awards for best supporting actor, for his role as Rosalind Russell's reluctant suitor in Picnic (1956) and for his portrayal of Jimmy Stewart's law partner in Anat omy of a Murder (1959); of Alzheimer's disease; in Los Angeles...
...events of Class Day--including a midday picnic and addresses by several student speakers--take place the day before the University commencement ceremony and are devoted to the College's graduating seniors and their families...
...Utah statute. The intensity of feelings about the issue was evident in the testimony. Said Willie Mae Demming, a tearful middle-aged black woman: "They gave my daughter an abortion, and she didn't want them to. She's deaf. She thought she was going on a picnic. She wanted the baby." Another mother, testifying against the bill, described what happened to her sister: "When our father learned she was pregnant, he beat her. He beat her until his arms were tired. This bill is punitive...
...representative body for all undergraduates might wield some influence. But the victories of the assembly have been few and far between--it is to be credited with helping win free toilet paper for the River Houses, and last year it staged a rock concert and a poorly attended spring picnic. Of late the assembly has grown even more timid; last week it refused to endorse the candlelight march against aid to El Salvador--as positive a student effort as this University has seen in three years--for fear of taking what one member called a "political stand...