Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson gains the upper hand quickly by, say, scoring two touchdowns in the first quarter, the game will turn into a rout. The Terriers will begin "trying too hard," as Lafayette's coach put it last week. They will make mistakes. And the Yovicsin attack is made to capitalize on enemy mistakes...
Exterminate or Prostitute? College Negroes nonetheless feel schizophrenic about their climb out of the ghettos into the white world. Somewhat bitterly, a member of Northwestern's new Kappa Alpha Psi Negro fraternity concedes that his goals are "pretty honkie-oriented-the corporation game, suburbia, upper middle-the works." At Wisconsin, Junior Clarence Brown takes a calmer view. "To better yourself is the first thing," he says. "Then you may be able to help others some day." But Graduate Student Brown McGhee scoffs: "Let me tell you how it is, baby. When I get out, I have two choices...
...Though primitive cannons were probably being used by the Moors against the Spanish as early as 1247, for centuries firearms were considered ineffective and extremely hazardous weapons. But by the 16th century, they had become far more accurate, and increasingly in demand by the nobility for such upper-class pastimes as hunting, dueling, warfare and ceremonial show...
Typical of many of her sisters, Linda Farmer lives in a one-bedroom apartment with another Rockette on the city's unfashionable upper West Side, spends $400 a year for makeup ($80 of which goes for false eyelashes alone). Because of her long hours (from noon to 10:30 p.m.), she dates only sporadically; the most popular reading material in the Rockettes' dressing room these days is a dog-eared copy of The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Manhunting. During their 90-minute break between shows, which one dancer wearily describes as "too short to do anything...
...others, who make occasional use of the building and include a variety of interesting upper middleclass students, usually consider the final club worthwhile despite the dues. The simple truth is, however, that the clubs belong to a different Harvard era, and they are barely changing at a time when the College's student body has changed significantly in just a few years. The clubs must either open up their membership more, or else withdraw further than they are at the present...