Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever the controversy over particulars, all are unanimous in their desire to produce another play. Since the advantage of their producing on a Harvard stage is mutual--only the most supercilious Harvard man would not have enjoyed Swanson's Alley--I put in my plug now for making this production a precedent for many more such cultural exchanges...
Another reason for Dartmouth's impressive defensive record is captain Kenny DeHaven. Watch for the 209-pound linebacker to plug the line and anticipate every move of the backfield. Thanks to a rugged corps of seniors who form the heart of the Indians defense-DeHaven, Jim McChinney, Henry Gerfen, and Charlie Chapman--Dartmouth has allowed only 15 points this season. Those fifteen points include a touchdown pass each by New Hampshire and Holy Cross and a gift field goal for the Crusaders. The Hanoverians have allowed only 78.8 yards per game and rank sixth nationally in overall rushing defense...
When Columbus first landed in northern Haiti (Hispaniola) in 1492, he captured a lovely Indian girl who was expensively but sparsely clad-with a golden nose plug and nothing else. Next day he found a town of 1,000 houses, some of whose inhabitants wore golden ear pendants. When he returned to Spain, he reported many of these small treasures...
...last week Anthropologist Paul W. Barker of Maine's Gorham State Teachers College vindicated Columbus. In northern Haiti, he reported, he dug up two golden pendants just like those described by Columbus. Barker may even have found them in the village where dwelt the lass with the nose plug...
...exile, the scoffer who could write The Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz (TIME, Aug. 22) before he turned party hack. It would not be the oddest thing about this strange and wonderful book if it turned out that Ehrenburg was in fact "Abram Tertz." Perhaps only the "psychoscope," a plug-in device invented by the secret policemen Tolya and Vitya to trace the private thoughts of citizens, will ever know the truth...