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...Treacts to a billion-dollar telecommunications shake...
...Midnight The freshman mixer. Indeed. Take 1600 raw freshmen, add one rock band of questionable talent, watery punch, shake them all around in smoky Memorial Hall, and you have three and a half hours of bona fide trauma, a/k/a the mixer. lowercase. You may as well sashay your way through Mem Hall for a few minutes, just so you can have something to talk about with every Harvard student, Freshman and upperclassman alike: how bad the mixer is. Also, there will be many women from other schools, presumably bused in to offset the sex ratio. But the pursuit of drunkenness...
Questioned about the city's failure to shake off its chronic ailments--pollution, crime, unemployment, suffering--the pizzaman just shakes his head. "So they'll clean up a little here, for a while. We are used to it. The garbage is part of it." His voice trails off as a co-worker notices him chatting on the job with a stranger. Without even a nod, the pizzaman turns his back and ends the exchange...
...disunity and disorganization. The pall of the Carter Administration will extend to the darkest corners of the beer stands in Madison Square Garden: Liberty, Justice and Incompetence for all. The president, who hopes to mend fences with Kennedy when the campaign ends, may find it difficult even to shake hands with Ted at the convention podium...
...ship "even God couldn't sink." Some of the submarines "implode" (burst apart at the seams to the detriment of their crews), but others survive to pump the hull of the 900-foot liner full of foam ("Gillette Foamy is rich and thick enough..."). A few dynamite charges shake the hull free of the bottom and then, glug, glug, glug, here she comes, surging to the surface where she sits, muddy and wet but otherwise unharmed...