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Most of the subzero zone, which stretched from the Rockies east to the Alleghenies, began to warm up just after Christmas, prompting an epidemic of jokes about 15° "heat waves." Midweek, however, the bitter cold snapped back down the country's spine, setting records in cities such as Casper, Wyo. (-26°), Denver (15°) and Amarillo, Texas (-5°). Nor was the worst over for much of the Deep South. Tornadoes roared through Georgia and Florida on Thursday...
Opponents of the concert point out that regardless of how the crowd behaves, most of the concertgoers would have no Harvard affiliation. The idea of entertaining those unordained by the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid sends a shiver down the upright spine of those who can't look past percentages to see the large number of their fellow-students who would attend the show...
...will keep hiring picadors from the back row and pic the bull back far back along his spine you will slam sandbags to the kidneys and pass a wine poisoned on the vine you will saw the horns off and murmur the bulls are ah the bulls are not what once they were The corrida will end with Russians in the plaza Swine, some of you will say what did we wrong? And go forth to kiss the conquerors...
...students, Wayne L. Johnson '84 and Peter B. Strong '85, were hospitalized at Leonard Morse Hospital in Natick, Mass. Johnson suffered a fractured bone in his spine from being thrown from the car as it rolled over, he said. Strong added that he tore tendons in his knee and has a broken...
...Gere was shown hanging heels over head in the 1980 film American Gigolo. Gravity Guidance of Pasadena, Calif., introduced the first inversion product: ankle straps now known as Gravity Boots (price: $60 to $84) that enable a sufferer to dangle from a chinning bar and relieve pressure on the spine. To go with the boots, the company sells steel-and-canvas support systems (up to $1,200) that hold users in a topsy-turvy position...