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Metrinko passed the next two months in more pleasant quarters: a room in a onetime art gallery. He never seriously considered trying to escape, since even when he was allowed to take a stroll in the courtyard he was surrounded by 20 or more armed guards. Says Metrinko ruefully: "It was like a grade-B movie, but I'm not James Cagney." The Ayatullah Khomeini's son Seyyed Ahmed talked to the hostages for half an hour one day. Metrinko complained to him that the food consisted of "rice and grease" and that he was not allowed...
...After a pleasant and uneventful trip down to New York City, land of dreams and the midnight bagel, the Hoopsters just as pleasantly and uneventfully dispatched an inferior Barnard squad 75-31, beefing up their season's record to 5-11. When it rains, it pours, particularly for the cagers...
Crimson coach Frank McLaughlin called McCabe's performance "a pleasant surprise," adding that he made the decision to put the 6-ft., 10-in. player into the game early in the first half because of the sophomore center's strong performance last weekend against Cornell's Alex Reynolds...
...world has changed since the New Deal, of course. Government must now more than ever arbitrate internal conflict and administer scarcity, hardly pleasant tasks. But need Government be so obtuse and at times acrimonious...
...success of the 1980 harvest is especially pleasant because the year began so poorly when the grain embargo temporarily disrupted commodity markets and drove prices down. The Federal Government was forced to buy up some 16.5 million metric tons of grain to stabilize prices...