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...team got a boost yesterday, however. Midfielder Bruce Regan was elected as next year's captain. When Harvard was behind this spring, Regan was usually part of the small corps that brought the Crimson roaring back. It was like the cavalry coming to the rescue in Rin Tin Tin, except in Rin Tin Tin it was never too late--it often was too late in Harvard lacrosse games this spring. Even the most observant spectators can't catch Regan loafing. He stood out especially against Yale. Not only did he score three goals, but he was constantly hustling on defense...
...back to the smokejumper base, the firefighters underwent a period of cultural shock. They became high on novelty. Inside the truck, they felt like monsters caged for the first time with a crew of other wild apes. They suddenly discovered upholstered chairs instead of logs, porcelain plates instead of tin cans ... silverware, firm ground, women, bright colors, music boxes. The clean, fragile people around them in the town were tense; they walked in odd bursts of nervous movement and talked too quickly...
...Type 1" -and to the rest of the world as "the beetle." The builders of the bug are less exultant over another statistic, however. Type 1, first manufactured in 1945, has already exceeded by five years the 19-year production span of Henry Ford's Model T-the Tin Lizzie that old Henry kept on too long, until it nearly carried him to ruin. Demand for the beetle remains strong, but VW fears getting stuck with a museum piece. Its solution: to become a German General Motors, offering a wide variety of models for different tastes and budgets...
...John Gay (1685-1732) The answer that Gay advocated in The Beggar's Opera was to nail witnesses' lips together so that they could not testify. That advice was not lost on the formidable Percy Foreman when he set out to defend the assassin of Mar tin Luther King Jr. Foreman's way of doing that - to avoid having to argue be fore a jury against the damaging ev idence marshaled against James Earl Ray - was to make a deal with Prosecutor Phil M. Canale Jr. for a negotiated guilty plea. The result turned...
...sentenced in absentia to ten years of hard labor because the Saigon Student Union had published a newspaper that favored peace and therefore "weakened the anticommunist spirit of the army and the people." Other sources close to Mr. Trung say that he may have been done away with. Tin Toung, a Buddhist magazine, in its September, 1968 issue reported that one of Mr. Trung's friends, Mr. Tran quoc Chuong, was tied up by three strangers and thrown down to his death from the third floor of the Sangon University Faculty of Medicine, while many others were beaten to death...