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...federal security officers looked on calmly, demonstrators yesterday afternoon built a small barricade of pine trees on the steps of the Central Square post office to protest the second day of the renewed draft registration program...
...land that is being so hotly contested still remains, much of it, a primeval wilderness of snowy, pine-covered mountains and silent deserts. In an area that stretches 1,260 miles from Canada to Mexico and almost 1 ,000 miles from east to west, there are still only 10 million people, hardly more than live in New York City and its immediate environs. Venture ten minutes out side smoggy, clogged Phoenix and you suddenly enter an eerie desert that sweeps on for hundreds of miles. Drive north along Highway 13 in Colorado, away from the bustle and lights...
...countries around the world have long given the dead elaborate burials. Now a Swedish pathologist has designed a new casket that he claims is suited to the less ceremonial 1980s. It is made of wax-impregnated corrugated cardboard and is said to be just as durable as an ordinary pine box. With its outer finish of imitation oak or walnut, it even resembles a wooden casket. Promoters point out that the cardboard model can be shipped flat to reduce transportation costs, conserves scarce natural resources, costs only one-tenth as much as a traditional casket and will start to decompose...
...NOTEBOOK: Kris Kinney, Princeton's number one player, proved to be a Crimson nemesis in the invitational. She defeated Stimpson in the first round, and went on to beat Harrison in the consolation final, 15-13, 15-13, 15-7...Pine Manor's Jane Giamattei won the tournament, defeating Nina Porter of Trinity in the finals...Barnaby attended the Princeton Invitational to scout the opposition...Pris Pool, the Crimson's new assistant coach, accompanied the team to Middletown...The Crimson face Brown at Hemenway on Tuesday. This traditional rivalry is intensified by the fact that Paul Moses, former Harvard coach...
...Shop routine, but most of the evening was predictable. Their new material is certainly up to their standards, there just wasn't enough of it: a professor (Chapman) reciting the components of slapstick comedy as acted out by Gilliam, Jones and Palin, complete with a Three Stooges pine board and lots of cream pies; a filmed retelling of the Little Red Riding Hood legend, with Cleese as Ms. Hood and the rest as seedy rapists; and best of all, another filmed skit wherein the German philosophers (Hegel, Heidegger, Nietzsche, et. al.) played soccer against the Greek philosophers (Socrates, Plato, Archimedes...