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...rules. It's not that difficult, because private parties are untouched by the rules, and in at least one House, the happy hours are being served there. And post-football game celebrations, invariably sanctioned by masters, draw crowds to huge House celebrations: Dunster's "zorbels" (otherwise known as a punch powerful enough to flatten Ali), a hot cider and rum at Winthrop and a BYOB bask at Mather. Other Houses are holding "fun hours," a euphemism for a euphemism...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Prohibition '79 | 10/25/1979 | See Source »

Despite the ban on happy hours, drinking in the Houses is continuing--in the form of private happy hours, "fun hours," masters' receptions (at which a limited amount of free alcohol is available for House residents only) and "zorbels" (Dunster House's deadly punch, served after every home football game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dry Run | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...England Sept. 24] is a subject close to my heart. The phrase cavalier attitude is one that I have used in reference to the several ticket agents it has been my misfortune to deal with. Indeed, I have seen people so angry that they seemed ready to punch the agent. I have been told by a snotty agent to "take another airline" if I didn't like the way they did things, while I overheard another agent say that she didn't "give a damn" if my bag was on the plane or not. Good God! They ought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 15, 1979 | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...tropical setting beside the beloved waterway. Anti-American propaganda held that the Zonians had reveled in colonial splendor amid the surrounding squalor of Panama. In truth, their homes were modest by U.S. standards and their incomes only adequate. Said one longtime Zonian, on his way for a last rum punch at the historic Spanish colonial-style Washington Hyatt Hotel in Colon: "We saved the best things of the American way of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: No More Tomorrows | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

Substituting for the injured Pete Walsh, who hyper-extended his hand in practice and may be healed for Saturday's UConn game, goalie Billy Blood rose to the task on the one or two occasions he was tested. With about 15 minutes left he leapt high to punch a free kick away from the dangerous head of 6'5" Steve Mooney...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Soccer Escapes With Win Over Wesleyan, 1-0 | 9/27/1979 | See Source »

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