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...Siones traditional war dance. All 14 teammates encircle him, slapping their thighs and giving enthusiastic vocal accompaniment, while Sione carries out the "sacred" team ritual. A beer party follows on the sidelines as players from both sides drink and exchange pleasantries. On certain weekends, Sione throws his famous pig roast...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Rugby at Harvard | 10/29/1968 | See Source »

KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). A Friars Club Roast. This year, the organization of showfolks skewers Johnny Carson. Alan King is roastmaster with Ed Sullivan, Steve Allen, Ed McMahon, Don Rickles, Groucho Marx, Flip Wilson and New York Mayor John Lindsay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: Oct. 25, 1968 | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...well to cut into and out of speeches in a kind of on-the-spot editing (based on advanced copies of the text). Sitting in the Convention building, all I could do was walk out of the hall and hide in the room where reporters can get free roast beef sandwiches...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, (SPECIAL TO THE SUMMER NEWS) | Title: The Convention - A Glittering Bore | 8/9/1968 | See Source »

...Englishman worth his roast beef will tell you, is derived from the expression "C(onstable) O(n) P(atrol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 2, 1968 | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

...miles distant. For 84 days, Vihlen bobbed and tossed in the prevailing easterlies, subsisted on little else but bread and water, yet kept his sea legs and once happily waved greetings to a curious U.S. submarine. All he asked of the sub skipper was a slice of roast beef, but the galley was closed. For all his bold self-sufficiency, Vihlen's long journey came to a saddening landfall: though within sight of Miami, he was unable to buck the powerful northward flow of the Gulf Stream and the offshore westerly winds. He and April Fool had to finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 28, 1968 | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

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