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...N.C.A.A. record set last year by North Texas State's Steve Ramsey. A shrewd field general, Plunkett has a sharp eye for reading defenses, and his strapping size (6 ft. 3 in., 210 Ibs.) allows him to shake off tacklers as though they were so many rag dolls. "Plunkett is the best drop-back passer I've seen in college football," says U.C.L.A. Coach Tommy Prothro. "He has real strength and good speed. If you go all out to blitz him, he'll eat you alive." Adds University of Oregon Coach Jerry Frei, a 33-10 victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Saturday's Hero | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

...funny, funny play, and you'll probably laugh yourself silly. "The Vatican Rag" has long been one of my favorite spoof songs, and The Greatest Musical Ever Sung shares (if only fitfully) much of its vigor. If you still take your eucharist seriously, go to the Prudential or something; if not, there's still time to hear the Pharisees do a splendid barbershop quartet. Yuks per minute, its a lot easier going than Levi-Strauss...

Author: By Martin H. Kaplan, | Title: Blasphemy The Greatest Musical Ever Sung at Dunster House November 19-21 | 11/19/1970 | See Source »

...number of Princeton women intended to write advertising copy for their candidates. Most of these coeds (Bang to PLUG.) found the two week period a bit trying, for they were not able in that short time span to gather enough material to create a good advertising spread. (Play "Tiger Rag," then jump to BALL...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band's Political Satire Presented at Princeton | 11/14/1970 | See Source »

...undisciplined romantics who disdain all authority. Yet he borrowed some of their ideas. In words that Marighella might have used as a model, Lenin urged revolutionaries "to arm themselves with anything they can lay hands on (a rifle, a gun, a bomb, a knife, a stick, a kerosene-drenched rag to set fire with, a rope or a rope ladder, a spade to build barricades, barbed wire, nails against cavalry, etc.). To start training for war immediately, by means of practical operations: killing a spy, blowing up a police station, robbing a bank to provide funds for the uprising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Manual for the Urban Terrorist | 11/2/1970 | See Source »

...beginning of the ooze. The imagery reaches beyond usual notions of drug-altered experience, to a more fundamental mistrust of people, institutions, and even the artifacts of day-to-day living. It's a Weltanschauung located in a barren urban setting, studded with carnivorous hair-dryers and dish-rag ghouls...

Author: By Robert Crosby, | Title: Uncle Sam's Kids Hee-Hee, Bogeyman, and Honky | 10/22/1970 | See Source »

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