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...struggling for a while in full pack, I got a cab--all right, it's a bourgeois thing to do, especially when you are trying to be a road person, but I was tried, and the cabbie told me it wouldn't cost more than a couple of dollars. Uh huh. He took me for seven bucks, but I stiffed him on the tip; that should teach him to take advantage of green, Eastern kids...
...Congressional representative of the 8th Disctict (including his home turf, Cambridge) and Speaker of the House. Tip has been pretty busy this year in Washington, what with restoring Uncle Joe Cannon's post to its former grandeur and fending off charges of involvement in Koreagate. You've seen his, uh, craggy Irish face splashed all over newspapers and magazines...
...ducks into his office in University Hall every morning to play dean of the College. Basically, Fox is responsible for picking up all the loose administrative ends of things that have to do with the College. He is chairman of the Administrative Board, which decides disciplinary cases, and uh, he helps Dean Rosovsky...
...Uh, good question. Believe it or not, Cambridge is not part of Harvard, but vice-versa. There is a long history of town-gown battles which Harvard usually wins, and tries to convince people that some sort of reconciliation has been made. The most recent example concerns the new Radcliffe athletic facility on Observatory Hill, which residents vigorously protested until about a month ago. The gym should be finished by next spring. Take 2--Recombinant DNA research. Former Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci successfully led the fight to ban the controversial work for five months in 1976. That put both...
...Moreover, words don't mean the same things now as they did then. When Sparkish calls Horner "the sign of a man" after a long discussion of the street signs in the neighborhood, he is referring to Horner's supposed sexual malady, "sign" meaning the shadow of a man. Uh, right...