Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Glashow's closest friends in high school were Steven Weinberg, who is now Higgins Professor of Physics, and Gary Feinberg, now a professor of physics at Cornell. "We learned a great deal by talking and competing with one another. We'd ride the subway to school together. On the way, one of us would say something like 'Quantum mechanics isn't so hard--I learned it last night,' and then explain whatever he'd read," Glashow said. Not to be outdone, someone else would read about another topic that evening and explain it the following morning. "In this...
...Long Ride. As Kissinger pondered himself and the world, he would occasionally chuckle, seemingly still unable to believe who he was and where he had been, but still relishing his long ride at the top. "How in the world would a middle-aged Jewish professor find this rapport with the American people?" he asked, and then answered his own question. "There is a basic goodness in the American people... In all my time there was never one letter asking, 'Why should an s.o.b. with a German accent tell us what to do?' In no question period did anybody...
After their chartered flight fell through, and after enduring a torturous bus ride from Syracuse to Ithaca, the Harvard skaters arrived at Cornell's Lynah Rink last night seeking retribution for a 7-4 loss earlier in the season...
...what now, gang? Another "fine effort" tonight against Princeton? A string of moral victories to finish out the season in superficial fashion? Freshman star Joe Beaulieu says "We'll be much stronger up front next season." Hopefully, the new blood will bring new pride and a limousine ride out of the summer camp league...
...Long Island--my neighbors and I huddled together on the pleasantly rickety old ferry dock, waiting for the Coast Guard to make good on its early-morning evacuation order. Earlier, a few of my closer and more foolhardy friends had announced their plan to defy the local honchos and ride out the storm, and for a while I had entertained hopes of joining their struggle against the elements. But my father, taking seriously the warning that his little beach cottage was about to become part of the 12-mile fishing limit, wasted little time in disabusing me of any pretensions...