Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Walzer and his right to investigate the XYY matter would also like to see Walzer acknowledge the pressure of the outside groups. Even Park Gerald, Walzer's associate, foresees a "terrible precedent" and says that other colleagues of his, warned by Walzer's retiring example, do not want to touch controversial research...
...addition to these official facilities, there are other less formal places to pursue one's athletic interests. Harvard Yard and the Charles River banks are fine for frisbee, touch football, and suntanning. The Freshman Union is the mecca for pingpong, pool, and that most addictive and time wasting of all endeavors, pinball...
...Horace Mann School in New York, Jeff Barclay '76 was a public figure; a teenage Midas whose touch turned activities into achievements. That was part of the problem...
...mixed entry conceded that her proctor had been a nice guy, but a complete loser when it came to dealing with eighteen-year-old women. "He was very popular with the guys in the dorm--mainly, I think, because they were flattered to drink beer and play touch football with a 28-year-old grad student. All he could manage to say to us women were things like, 'How's your boyfriend?" I didn't have...
...third Dutch-U.S. Ambassador W. Beverly Carter decided to bend a few of the State Department rules that forbid diplomats to get involved in negotiations with terrorists. He put embassy facilities in Tanzania at the disposal of the students' parents, helped them to get in touch with the kidnapers, and did what he could to assist the negotiations, which ended with the release of all of the students by July 25 in exchange for about $40,000. As a result of that happy ending, Carter, who is black, got a commendation from the State Department; his impending promotion...