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Miss Manners clearly stresses etiquette at the table, but Harvard finds most of it useless. Three full pages describe the function of every fork imaginable when the Union stocks only one variety. The most important advice goes without mention--avoid the forks that still have this morning's French toast stuck to their tines...
...Illinois house vote prompted seven ERA supporters to end their 37-day hunger strike and resignedly toast one another with grape juice in plastic champagne glasses. But after the senate vote, more militant feminists dropped plastic bags filled with animal blood outside the capitol and scrawled the names of prominent ERA opponents in the fluid. Nine women were arrested and led away in handcuffs. Republican Governor James Thompson, whose tepid support of the ERA angered proponents, termed the blood smearing "vile and disgusting" and likened it to "painting swastikas on synagogues...
...idea was the reverse of body building. Instead of adding bulk and then sculpting down, I went to 157 and added on in increments of an ounce here, an ounce there." Stallone slimmed mainly on a daily diet of ten raw egg whites and a quarter slice of burnt toast-"so it would contain no water." The daily routine: two miles running, 18 rounds of sparring, two hours of weight lifting, a nap, another run and no dinner. The result: a 47-in. chest, a 29½-in. waist. Stallone managed to achieve an incredibly low body-fat level...
...than Associate Dean of Freshmen, W.C. Burriss Young '55 and entitled "Sage Warnings to Freshmen," it brims over with advice on everything form food fights ("So cut it out") to fire alarms in the Union ("When you hear one go off, get outside. It is better to eat cold toast than to be toasted") truly, it is unsurprising that the yield of freshmen accepting Harvard's offer of admissions has begun to drop...
...scene was deceptively convivial. There was Vice President George Bush, smiling affably as his host, Chinese Communist Party Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, raised a glass of mao-tai in a toast to Sino-American friendship. In fact, after two days of talks with China's top leadership, Bush had failed to mend a relationship between the two nations that has been deteriorating virtually from the day President Ronald Reagan took office. When Bush returned to Washington last week, he could only say that he was taking some unspecified "new ideas" back to the President, together with a Chinese warning...