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...society, Economist David Osterberg, 35, of Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, moved into a chicken coop nearly two years ago. The quarters are small (9 ft. by 12 ft.) but cheap: $40 a month for rent and electricity. Osterberg installed a glass skylight, insulation and not-so-spartan furnishings, including a stereo, color television, refrigerator, telephone, toaster oven and several Persian rugs. Says he: "Living this way makes me feel that at least I'm not part of the problem...
...seemed. "As Nkomo arrived at the spartan camp," reported Borrell, "thousands of young men in tattered clothing stood stiffly at attention, shouldering wooden staves as substitutes for the Soviet Kalashnikov rifles they will later carry. We watched as company-size units jogged in formation to the center of a parade ground, then formed a huge square around Nkomo. 'Z!' he shouted to the group, by way of greeting. 'Zimbabwe!' came the response from perhaps 6,000 voices...
First-year Dartmouth coach Joe Yuckica seems to like the spartan existence of Hanover, New Hampshire, and yesterday Yukica's Spartans came up with 10 points in the fourth quarter to upset highly-regarded Penn...
...they're bringing on the Spartan approach," I said, "frills are passe." I really had no desire to hear another lecture on art, let alone watch Meldrim Thomson feast on clams...
...these are work sessions, he said again, "we are bringing on the Spartan approach, frills are passe--we can only be effective if we are serious." With a click of camera shutters, the opening session of the conference broke up, the floodlights blinked off, and the ever-present reporters began to mill around and crowd the stars into corners with a whole repertoire of Proposition 13 questions...