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...When in Doubt . . ." This innocent bit of counterfeiting was part of Daytona life last week. As Easter weekend approached, some 15,000 college boys and girls had swarmed into town to roast in the sun, dance, guzzle beer, and "make out" (or, far more accurately, to talk about making out). On the beach a couple of fast-slapping guitar players started up a hot beat. Within moments, a score of college kids were doing the twist while cheering onlookers, some of them wearing sweatshirts marked "Property of Daytona Beach Jail" and "Stamp Out Virginity," raised their beer cans on high...
Last Tuesday's Committee meeting, Atkinson, college dietician, that the great deal of food which waste contributes significantly board rates. If wastage could be the dining halls could afford equivalent of two more roast beef each week, Miss Atkinson said...
...geostrophic jolt, statesmen grimly reveal, has knocked the earth 11° off its axis and, what is in finitely worse, has steeply deflected its orbit. In four months, scientists estimate, the earth will pass so close to the sun that the world will end in fire, and humanity will roast in a hell of its own making...
...more appear in hand-me-downs; working-class boys wear blazers, and girls blue jeans. More dramatic, say merchants, are changes in their choice of food and furnishings. Twice as much sherry is drunk today as ten years ago. Housewives ignore cheap meat cuts in favor of chicken and roast beef; avocados and chow mein have become stock greengrocer or chain-store items. Moreover, the lower class, with more money to spend, has adopted what was once an upper-class custom: dining out. Women's magazines read mainly by the working class carry recipes for wiener schnitzel and French...
Turning up at London's most merciless sacred-cow roast, Queen Elizabeth II chuckled her way through the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe with two other targets: Foreign Secretary Lord Home and Her Majesty's censorious Lord Chamberlain, the Earl of Scarbrough. Though one member of the show's unholy quartet sourly reflected that "if we had wounded the Establishment as much as we intended, the Queen's advisers would not have let her come," a more mellow colleague took comfort in the fact that not a line had been cut from the hard-hitting script...