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...poorest taste award" went to the raft "Quivering Thigh," whose crew, in a last-minute effort to gather poorest taste points, exposed themselves to spectators standing on the Weeks Bridge...
Hundreds of sun-loving and beer-drinking spectators were on hand for the third annual Adams House Ivy and World Championship Raft Race held Saturday afternoon on the Charles...
...prize of the day went to the Queen Mab, an imitation of a paddle-wheel river boat. Ward awarded four cases of beer to the craft, citing it as "the most extravagant, colossal and stupendous raft and the most likely to be hit by low flying aircraft...
After the Rain, to judge by a modestly incomprehensible press release, is a "British farcial satire" about some criminals in the year 2176 who apparently put on a play, while hypnotized by the Lecturer, about "your ancestors" who survived on a raft during the "great Rain" of 1976. The new South House Drama Society, we're asked to believe, chose this play for its inaugural production after discarding Buchner and Shaw. Where have you been, my blue-eyed son? Tomorrow and Sunday at 7:30, Saturday at 2, in the Hilles Library Theater...
Senator Benigno Aquino Jr. of the opposition Liberal Party-who would probably now be President had Marcos stepped down at the end of his elected term on Dec. 30-is still in jail on a raft of questionable charges, including murder. Hundreds of other political dissidents are also under detention. Marcos' heavyhanded use of martial law has come under increasing attack from the Roman Catholic Church, to which 90% of all Filipinos belong. The hierarchy has accused the government of harassment. Church schools have been taxed, foreign-born priests arrested and convents ransacked. Despite Marcos' periodic claims that...