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...soldiers, the kelpers have become known as "bennies," after a British TV character who is a decent, hard-working but thickheaded farmer. When military commanders reportedly banned the sobriquet, the troops quickly devised a new one: "stills," short for "still bennies." The natives, in turn, refer to the soldiers as "squaddies," an archaic British dig at military men of low rank...
...Nicknames for Soviet planes are assigned by NATO officials. Bombers are dubbed with words beginning with B, such as Blackjack and Backfire, and fighters are labeled with an F, sometimes bizarrely, as in Foxbat and Frogfoot. The MiG and Su designations refer to two major Soviet design bureaus and honor the late Engineers Ar-tem Mikoyan, Mikhail Gurevich and Pavel Sukhoi...
...right. Sneakers without a smudge; jeans unblemished. But there is humor as well as rigor in rap flash. If you think high, knitted ski caps worn at impossible angles are just funny-looking, you only get half the joke. Printed legends like I'D RATHER BE SKIING refer not to snowy slopes but to white mounds of a certain illicit inhalable substance. Greek fisherman hats, or bike-team hats, even shirts with alligator trademarks are worn with what Rap Scene Writer Michael Holman calls "absurd humor." He sees it as a deliberate mockery of the preppie look...
Last Wednesday, Mary D. Up to, dean of students at the Law School, received a memo from Harvard Police, according to Benjamin H. Schatz '81, chairman of the Harvard Law School Committee on Gay and Lesbian Legal issues. "In the future, when they receive complaints, they will refer them to the Law School," Schatz said yesterday...
...account, by a Jeffrey Zucker, of a women's ice hockey game with Colby in Waterville, Maine (2/23/83) reflects a point of view I like to call "urban provincialism." I refer to his lead: "There is not much going on in Waterville, Maine, this time of year. The most exciting show to hit town in days rolled through yesterday And that was the Harvard women's ice hockey team...