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...Square Garden and some key hotels, the city seemed to be under no strain as it handled the great event-in fact, it simply seemed to swallow it up. A few blocks from the convention area, it was as if the 20,000 delegates, alternates, friends, relatives and sundry spear carriers were not even there. It surely must have seemed that way, at least, to numerous barkeeps, concessionaires and other small businessmen, who had been anticipating a bonanza and were bitterly disappointed when none materialized. One cab driver was particularly irritated with the city for carting delegates around in buses...
...property owners, who will also choose senators for a four-year term. Both houses will elect a Governor of strictly limited power. As a finishing touch, just before the delegates adjourned last week, they approved a new state seal-a female figure representing Virtue and Courage, armed with a spear, standing with one foot on the corpse of Tyranny...
...unfairly ripped off her professorial mentors. Says Levinson: "She is incomplete, to put it mildly, in acknowledging her use of my published and unpublished material." Many of Sheehy's findings were indeed reported earlier by academics; where she does cite experts they tend to be introduced as mere spear carriers in her own pageant. Levinson, for example, outlined the "mentor phenomenon"-that in middle age a man feels the need to promote the fortunes of a younger worker. In 1970 Margaret Hennig, co-director of Simmons College's graduate program in management, reported on the importance of mentors...
...Harvard Stadium record in the javelin fell for the second time in four days when Dartmouth's Skip Cummins chucked his spear 240 feet 8 inches. Freshman Dave Kinney trailed with a toss of 238 feet 4 inches, as the top three finishers all bettered the 233 feel 8 inches mark set on Saturday...
Anything goes in this atmosphere of raw capitalism. Marley's rock guitars, the tribal chanting of a group like Burning Spear, even Toots and the Maytals' infatuation with U.S. country-and-western, are allowed inside the reggae big top. Organs, saxophones and flutes often accompany the basic guitar-drum-bass troika...