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Seventy-six crews from 16 colleges as far west as Wisconsin will try to swamp Harvard's powerhouse of eights...
...hand of his Negro buddy who has been wounded tells of the brotherhood of battle without words. The mood is enhanced by rock 'n' roll and blues music. In one sequence, Nancy Sinatra sings These Boots Are Made for Walkin' as the platoon trudges through a swamp...
...delighted, even Administration economists were surprised by the size of the slash. "Too much, too soon," chorused other bankers, who next day began cutting their rates half as much, to 5¾%, in a half bow yet pointed rebuke to Chase. Then they sat back to watch loan demand swamp Chase with more business than it could handle...
...will be no easy job, as the county agents learned during their training at a camp in Florida's swamp country, where the balmy climate approximates that of tropical Viet Nam. They were warned to expect terrorist attacks, told never to travel at night for fear of ambush, and informed about the standoffish peasants' social and religious taboos. The most arduous aspect of the course was learning the language from three Vietnamese instructors (heo is pig, bap is corn, ga is chicken, and farmer is a tongue-twisting nguoi lam ruong). Kiddingly, the agents asked their Vietnamese teachers...
...waiting rule was created by the General Court in April, 1865. At that time one had to be physically present in the Yard on Commencement Day to vote for overseers and the law was passed out for fear that the newly graduated seniors and their graduate school counterparts would swamp the elections unless restrained...