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THEIR LITTLE comic books told the story of the Signifying Monkey, a devilish animal who's always instigating fights. The Signifying Monkey, Brer Rabbit, and Anansi the Spider are part of the same West African folk tradition. All three are small creatures that use their wits to survive and to cause trouble...
Colonel Vo Toan, the district commander, described what he calls the "spider-web" tactics employed at Ta Lung: "We make sure the enemy doesn't venture too far. He is the butterfly and we are the spider. If he enters our web, we close in behind...
...rafts ranged from the chauvinistic to the crazy in an astounding display of student ingenuity. The most interesting was the Kirkland House Spider...
...board the lofty platform, the crew used a 16-foot ladder from the shore. The second man to board caused the Spider to ignominiously collapse in front of the very large crowd. A reorganized version, with a much lower profile, successfully finished the Anderson to Weeks course...
Jack Smith '75, one of the students who worked last year, had students in the audience read aloud the definition of "spider" in the two dictionaries, pointing out the difference between the junior and the ordinary dictionary...