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...year's captain Bill Okerman-- Okerman is staging a deadly war with rigor mortis. On two top Northeastern runners, the Flora twins--You know, I'm a gardener during the summer, and two twins named Flora put the finishing touches on us. Something is just not right. I just swear when I see them. Damn their souls. If we had some of that weed spray, I would have sprayed it on them. On a loss to Northeastern--We ran, we swam, we splashed and we struggled. We were purified by the rains from heaven and defiled by Northeastern. On last...
...across the nation. In St. Louis, the celebration under, around and through the city's Gateway Arch will last four hours and include an air show with a wing walker and a five-man free-fall parachute jump. At Chicago Stadium, the Immigration and Naturalization Service will swear in 1,776 new citizens. In the Miami Beach Convention Hall, 7,000 new citizens will be naturalized...
...Senate seat that Alabama's John Sparkman is expected to vacate in 1978? Replied Wallace: "I hope to still be in politics. If I go up there, you can be sure of one thing. I'm not going to be your average freshman Senator the day they swear me in." Meanwhile, what Wallace wants most is a little respect and a nice, warm reception at the Democratic National Convention, which opens July 12 in New York City. Given the Democrats' victory-through-unity mood, he'll probably...
...Cleopatra, "Age cannot wither nor custom stale her infinite variety ... other women cloy the appetites they feed; but she makes hungry/ Where most she satisfies." Even the vows that she and Antony swear in lovers' defiance of the world are thunderously imperial. Says Antony: "Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch of the ranged empire fall!" and Cleopatra echoes, "Melt Egypt into Nile...
...final court of appeals at West Point is Berry. As superintendent, he has the power to overturn the findings of the review board and decide that a cadet is innocent. But even then, the absolved cadet's classmates may shun him as a pariah. To some zealots who swear by the honor code, the very fact that a cadet is accused of wrongdoing is reason enough to condemn him -a situation that shows how a system designed to develop honor can be warped to foster dishonor...