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Arthur and Deborah Toga of St. Louis had boarded TWA Flight 847 in Athens a week earlier, at the end of a three-week vacation in Europe, because another flight had been canceled. He is an assistant professor of neurology, she a psychiatric nurse who is seven months pregnant. After she was released by the hijackers in Algiers, she flew to the U.S. to await news of her husband at the home of his parents in Lexington, Mass. In chaotic Beirut last week, Arthur Toga, 32, tried to describe his feelings. "I fear for her, not knowing about my well...
...Chicago public school, Teacher Robert Creighton wraps himself in a sheet before entering class. "When I walk into the room in a toga," he explains, "I've got everyone's attention." He holds it with a Latin version of What's My Line?, spelling bees and a puppet show starring a mouse named Equus Eddie. In Fairfax, Va., Maureen O'Donnell awards daily bonus points to high school students who can pick out pop items like Top 40 song titles scribbled in Latin on the blackboard...
...Princeton debate panel president decided against wearing "either a toga or a tux to the finals." This last round is in grave Nassau Hall, where, the hosts claim, Princeton Students James Madison and Aaron Burr held forth, off-topic, 211 years ago. The Princetonians want the debaters to heed the chamber's cavernous propriety. "To waste this room on worn-out double-entendres would be sacrilege," says Bob West, '81, back for the tournament. Indeed, the puncturing blasphemies are scarce during the final round. (Only one wispy student, speaking from the floor and pointing to the room...
That was the summer of a somewhat kinky toga party and a so-called mud dance, which had to have been against the law in several states. It was the summer after the famous last-day streak, a season which had nearly brought a law suit from a shocked pair of parents. It was also the summer a middle-aged pianist cracked up altogether. Before her exile, she had wanted to hold a music salon in the barn and charge admission. She had cried a lot, and everyone was sort of relieved...
...Teri Garr, Frannie is a Shirley MacLaine gamine minus the cutes and the smarts and the go-get-'em will. Her fella, Hank (Frederic Forrest), who works in an automobile graveyard, is just as lackluster. Sitting at the breakfast table with his beer belly peeking through a towel toga, Hank looks like the last of the Caesars-Sid, playing late Brando. The apogée of their romantic arc is long in the past, almost beyond memory. And so, to the cadences of Tom Waits' bluesy songs 'performed by Waits and Crystal Gayle), these restless lovers find...