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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Generally anorexics are achievement-oriented, very intelligent, very depressed people. They are hyperactive, spending enormous amounts of time exercising to burn off calories, and they are very nervous. Most anorexics come from upper class or uppermiddle class homes where food is plentiful; few come from lower class homes, and anorexia is rarely reported in developing countries...
Peter W. Stanley '62, assistant professor of History, wrote that the current Philippine government is a repressive dictatorship in which Marcos is using martial law to prevent the ruling upper classes from being ousted from power...
...upper-class white Salisbury suburb of Highlands on a sunny Sunday afternoon, George and Jeanette Smith sip gin-and-tonic "sundowners" around the swimming pool behind their handsome $50,000 two-story stone home. Both are Rhodesian-born and -bred, in their late 30s, and not particularly prosperous by Salisbury standards. "We couldn 't afford to live like this anywhere else," admits George, a junior partner in a local law firm. Like many other white Rhodesians, he has been called up for military reserve duty three times in the past year, and has had to spend 82 days away...
...premiere of Montezuma, it was difficult to recognize the tiny (26-ft.-deep) stage of Boston's old Orpheum Theater. The apron had been built out 8 ft. The lower boxes had been converted into overflow basins for extra members of the orchestra, mostly percussion. Through the upper boxes paraded soldiers and Aztec natives on their way to destiny. Behind scrims and translucent screens soldiers fought silhouetted battles that suggested endless depth...
Coach Joe Restic said that Jiggetts should do well in the pros because he has the size, quickness and upper-body strength needed, though he may be behind other players initially because he comes from an Ivy League school...