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...years ago, old hands could almost be heard humming Anchors Aweigh. Since then, two World War II- vintage battlewagons have been made ready for sea duty, and last week a third, the U.S.S. Missouri, was recommissioned in San Francisco as a crowd of 12,000 spectators cheered from its pier...
...honky-tonk, and I think that's what we've got." And he wanted it to be on Beale Street, "where you could just feel the history of the place, the spirit." New Jersey Generals Quarterback (barring a rumored trade) Doug Flutie was also concerned with locale. Flutie's Pier 17,a 15,000-sq.-ft. restaurant that officially opened last week, is his way of "planting a foot in New York City. I've always been known as a Boston athlete, and this is one way I could become a New Yorker...
...revelers were killed in Fort Lauderdale, including an inebriated student who plunged off the 16th floor of the Pier 66 Hotel. Two more died in Daytona Beach after falling from hotel balconies. On Sanibel Island, along the Gulf Coast, a University of Arizona freshman fell to his death from a balcony during a vigorous tobacco-spitting contest. In Miami, a student toppled off a drawbridge...
...Extension students have stronger backgrounds in molecular biology and bio-chemistry than medical school students," Pier says. "They are clearly being educated with modern concepts...
Back in Manila, the capital, a different kind of spectacle was unfolding. President Ferdinand Marcos, 68, an ailing autocrat possessed of formidable political powers, made an election foray of his own from Malacanang Palace to address 7,000 longshoremen on the city's South Pier. Everything was carefully choreographed: a stream of local entertainers kept the crowd's attention until Marcos, looking drawn, tired and weak, was escorted to the podium. The President joked about rumors that he had suffered a physical collapse, and dismissed reports of his obvious ill health as so much "black propaganda." Wife Imelda...