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...Nebraska football team strains its sinew in a weight room that Cub Scouts tour. In the foyer of this unbelievable expanse of sweat, set off by red velvet ropes and little curators' plaques, is a museum of the original Cornhusker barbells and exercise bike. One has to grin. Associate Professor Susan Rosowski of the English department agrees that a sense of humor is helpful. "There's a strange duality," she says. "On the one hand, we're terribly proud of our Big Red, but we're also a little defensive about how big it is here...
...offers a more standard football-shaped emblem crafted by a clerk there. In fact, Co-op President Dick Ballard reports brisk business, listing the numerous items on which their logo appears: "It is on everything. From the preppy button-down shirts to the LaCoste-looking shirts to the sweat-shirts to t-shirts to glasses--highballs and shot glasses--to lucite letter openers. These are sold exclusively at the Yale...
...Sweat soaked the layers of their camouflage battle uniforms. Their rifles and backpacks grew heavy in the 100° F heat of the tropical isle. But it had been a long time since American soldiers had felt so good, or so welcome, in a foreign land. Declared a delighted U.S. paratrooper as he patrolled a post in a suddenly peaceful Grenada: "We're surrounded by friendlies...
...wait and to question. The Bay of Pigs had instructed him to rely more on his own internal deliberations and less on the hormonal instincts of his military and intelligence advisers. During those 13 days in October 1962, the world held its breath; it waited in a real sweat of nuclear panic. Never, before or since, has global annihilation seemed a more immediate possibility. Kennedy rejected the idea of direct strikes
...standpoint--that producers literally glutted the screen with "teenage trash films." Occasionally, the script writer will muster up a flimsy plot to legitimize the film's existence. More often the film will do nothing more than what it purports lure sex-hungry teenagers to watch John Travolta and NastassiaKinski sweat and pulsate...