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...anyone who has grown up male in the United States, driving an automobile transcends the rather rudimentary coordination one needs to stay in lane on highways. For reasons that swell Freudian literature, driving becomes a symbolic, even a sexual act. (Praised be the soft enchantress who likes the way we shift...
...university defends its construction as necessary to meet federal requirements for women's athletic facilities, and claims that they can be built at least expense at the controversial site. Demonstrators vow to continue their opposition if construction starts. Though there has been no great swell of support from the 7,000 students now on campus, Robert Hart, a protest leader, predicts: "We'll have pickets outside the construction fence. This will go on." For his part, President Olds insists: "Whatever we do, we will not risk any violence...
...ancestry, most with roots in Sicily. Of course, the nationwide number of mobsters involved in organized crime is far higher and knows no ethnic limits. Rednecks dominate the Georgia underworld. Blacks and Hispanics run most of the rackets in their neighborhoods. Jews, Greeks, Chinese and Irish Americans all help swell the totals...
...their first game, the Celts teased the Sixers and then beat them with a hoop at the buzzer, the Marathon was run, and the Bruins have been playing admirably in Los Angeles, even though they have to use roller skates to move. Locally, every Harvard team has been doing swell, and the weather has been beautiful. We all should go out and watch our intercollegiate representatives march toward triumph. Besides, it gives you a good excuse to sauce...
...that the mortgage will cover. Among them: Chase Manhattan, Morgan Guaranty, First National of Chicago and Bank of America. The 51 Ren Cen partners, for their part, coughed up $114 million in equity, much of it in staggered amounts as costs surged. Said one banking partner, watching his contributions swell and anticipating little return for years and years: "We look on it as a write...