Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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India's upper class regarded the turmoil with studied detachment. Unfortunately, the fashionable thing to do in India is not to vote. President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, 78, does not plan to vote, feeling that his position as chief of state requires him to stay above politics-but he failed to exercise his franchise even when he held less exalted jobs. Similarly, many of India's civil servants, editors, intellectuals, and other members of the elite consider it a mark of high status not to cast ballots. The usual explanation is that they cannot find any candidate worthy of their...
...near future, look for some market-research survey to come up with these conclusions: To whom will cryobiology appeal most? Middle and upper-class agnostics and atheists. To whom will it appeal least? Nuns (who aren't a heck of a good market anyway). Who will benefit most? Lawyers, existentialists, loan companies, adaptable morticians. What group will be most resistant to it? Eskimos. To whom will it all be one big joke? Those who finally develop the knowledge to thaw us out and the common sense...
...Crimson broke into the lead at 13:33. Garrity intercepted a defenseman's pass at center ice, skated in alone, and rifled a perfectly timed shot into the upper rightcorner...
...lead didn't last the period. At 18:37 Jimmy Quinn beat Fitzsimmons' glove to the upper rightcorner on a quick shot following a faceoff in Harvard...
...Mike Sobeski clipped the upper-right corner of the net with an unfiscreened shot from inside the blue line. Two minutes later McLachlan registered a similar goal, with Wakabayashi getting his fourth assist of the night to set a B.U. season record...