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...season long Harvard knew that Princeton would be the crew to beat; the Tigers and the Crimson had virtually uniform margins over every squad they met, and Princeton, with its most powerful crew in years, knew it was now or never...
...oversimplified story of eight innocents in search of an answer. John the Baptist pulls a flower bedecked cart over the Brooklyn Bridge one morning. He appears to the city's hungry souls in need of salvation. Their troubles are varied: one has spilled coffee on her waitress's uniform. Another is stuck in a traffic jam and a third is unfairly forced to wait in line to use a Xerox machine. He summons them to the Central Park fountain where, in the midst of absolution, Christ appears. "I wanna get washed up," says one disciple with hope in his eyes...
With little fanfare, Ervin has used his chairmanships to advance individual liberties. He inspired the revised Uniform Code of Military Justice, claiming that servicemen were subject to arbitrary discipline rather than justice. He pushed through a bill preventing any Indian tribal council from depriving an Indian of his constitutional rights. Ervin led a reform of the bail system, giving judges the power to release suspects too poor to pay bail but likely to appear for trial. He secured passage of a bill limiting the use of lie-detector tests in screening federal employees...
Evenings bring a slight cooling and a certain degree of formality. The Poles, who spend the day in swimming shorts or underwear, change into their baggy uniforms and hunt-and-peck on the typewriters, turning out reports to be packeted to Can Tho. The Hungarians, who sport smart blue athletic shorts and white V-necked T shirts by day, slip on long pants and also work on reports. The Indonesians, accustomed to the daytime heat, spend all their time in full uniform. And the Canadians, who have no uniform of the day, stroll about in shorts at night...
...partly because they are eager to seize on any issue to harry the Gaullists in the wake of their recent election success, union leaders and left-wing politicians are backing the students. The student demands are not uniform, but most seem to want all youths to be able to choose any year between 18 and 25 for their military service...