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Wednesday night in one of the biggest nights of the hockey season. For on that night, at 7:30, the Crimson will be singing "Screw B.U." and skating against the hockey team of that school. Diehard fans will have to venture to across the river to see this match, but not across the river to Watson. You see, it's being played in the Walter Brown arena at B.U. Between periods all new owners of long-sleeved Lacoste shirts will be introduced, in salute to preppies...
...foes on Capital Hill developed a malevolent symbiosis in joining together to bring down Nixon. The press knew "perfectly well they were dealing with people who had axes they wanted to grind in our backs. These people on the staffs of committees on the Hill were out to screw us any way they could and would use the press to do so. And the press was willingly used by them to foist on the country a hell of a lot of lies...
They were difficult years. Each foreign plaudit that fell upon Solzhenitsyn was followed by a turn of the Kremlin's screw at the dacha. As Rostropovich tells it, "Official people said I must kick him out. My wife and I did not find that reasonable. We explained our point of view?that each human being has a right to make of his life what he wants." In October 1970 Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize. When the Soviet press increased its abuse of the author, Rostropovich became enraged and decided to write a letter of protest. Says he: "This was greatest...
Daniela Morera has a "chat" with Calvin Klein, during which this gentleman whose "elegant sportswear" company makes $25 million a year declares, "I have no pity for people who screw up their lives, no patience. There are so many people lost and it's their fault..." Nice guy, that Mr. K. Nice to hear how he and his partner used to sell water for five cents a glass in the Bronx as kids. Horatio Alger's heroes had nothing...
...accumulating the evidence that did much to force Richard Nixon's resignation. When O'Neill and fellow Texan Wright called to try to persuade him, Jaworski says, "I wish I had been in Timbuktu." But, he adds, they "insisted." So, ignoring friends' warnings that he might "screw up" his Watergate reputation, he accepted-and agreed to serve without pay. Says Jaworski: "There is another challenge to another institution of Government, and it's up to someone to ferret out the facts...