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...near Coolidge, Ariz., Sky Diver Gregory Robertson, 35, could see that Debbie Williams, 31, a fellow parachutist with a modest 50 jumps to her credit, was in big trouble. Instead of "floating" in the proper stretched-out position parallel to the earth, Williams was tumbling like a rag doll. In attempting to join three other divers in a handholding ring formation, she had slammed into the backpack of another chutist, and was knocked unconscious...
Most of the fare in London's tabloids is designed to titillate and tickle. Officials in Dublin, however, were not amused by one story appearing last week in the Sunday People, a racy Fleet Street rag. The paper charged that for more than four years the passport officer at the Irish embassy in London had sold false Irish passports to foreigners. The price: as much as $24,000 apiece. The story further alleged, although it provided no evidence, that the official, Kevin McDonald, 37, may have sold some of the bogus documents to "Libyans, Iranians, Lebanese and others" from states...
...incredible 35-2-1 national championship season of 1984-'85, the professional hockey teams have grabbed 11 players, mostly underclassmen, from that Engineer squad. According to Addesa, it was his four remaining seniors, the "ones who were left behind" by the "play-for-pay" crowd, which enabled this rag-tag collection of freshmen to advance to the semis...
...example: say you've got a million little rag dolls you want to unload, but they've taken up permanent residence in the warehouse. A couple of people buy a few, and you've got a minitrend. You publicize your minitrend in the industry press, and more people start buying. Time magazine hears about it and puts in on the front cover, and bang, housewives are duking it out in the aisles to get your product. Net result: Cabbage Patch Dolls...
WHEN I FIRST heard Harvard people bragging about their great diversity, I thought they were talking about some kind of graduate school for scuba divers. I soon discovered that what they were referring to was the rag-tag, motley, kaleidoscopic, crazy-quilt, incongruous mixture of humanity that gathers each year in Cambridge to pursue its lofty goals...