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...might also want to check out the rugby team. Rugby is not a varsity sport, even though it attracts as many participants as any sport here except football. Rumor has it the reason the team refuses to take varsity status is that it would then have to spend less money on beer. Their staggering booze intake not-withstanding, the ruggers were the best team in the East last year and finished second in the country...
...Libya plot that it had written Reagan to protest. (TIME had also learned about the alleged plot, but concluded that the report was untrue.) The White House last week flatly denied Newsweek's story. But then, in another deceptive leak, apparently designed to stop the Libya rumor, CIA sources suggested that the West African nation of Mauritania was the object of a somewhat similar-sounding operation. In fact, both congressional committees had objected to a much broader, proposed CIA operation-one that did not involve physical attacks on any national leader-to shore up U.S. interests in the Middle...
...Derek Takes Off Her Shirt in Exotic Places would be much more appropriate. She takes off her shirt to swim in the Great Inland Sea, she takes off her shirt to swim with Tarzan, she takes off her shirt to get painted chalk-white by restless natives. And rumor has it that she even took off her shirt to wrestle with an alligator, but, alas, that scene was left on the cutting room floor by censors. She even takes off her shirt during the final credits to wrestle around in the sand with Tarzan and an orangutan, in a menagerie...
...Viet Nam has brought forth excellent work: Ron Glasser's 365 Days, Michael Herr's Dispatches, Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato, Ron Kovic's Born on the Fourth of July, James Webb's Fields of Fire, Phil Caputo's A Rumor of War. Now, more veterans seem to be emerging from their long, isolated silence. They have recorded their memories of the war in two new oral histories: Al Santoli's Everything We Had and Mark Baker's Nam. A group of actors led by Tom Bird have formed the Veterans Experience Theater Company in New York City...
...fend off any further takeover efforts, Conoco searched frantically for a merger partner. On rumor alone, the stock prices of Diamond Shamrock, Newmont Mining and Cities Service all leaped as investors speculated that Conoco was preparing to institute merger proceedings with them...