Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prop Bill "Moon" Mullin, in the tourney's worst injury, was stretchered off the field into an ambulance after wrenching his neck and upper back in a scrum against Dartmouth...
...bagmen have prompted Congress to move, albeit ponderously, toward adopting a new act. Last week the Senate choked off, by a 64-to-30 vote, a filibuster led by conservative Alabama Democrat James Allen, who abhors public financing. Two days later, by a 53-to-32 vote, the upper chamber passed a wide-ranging bill calling for public financing of all congressional and presidential elections, primary and general. But the House is likely to rule out public funding for congressional elections. And even if the House does approve public financing of presidential races, Richard Nixon has served notice that...
...Senior class girls drank less, but they are catching up fast: 29% said that they drank 50 or more times in 1973, compared with only 14% in 1970. Notes Paul Richards, an adviser at a San Mateo high school: "This school represents a socioeconomic background from welfare to upper middle class, and the drinkers come from all categories...
...Portable Pioneer and Prairie Show, now touring the upper Midwest under the sponsorship of Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater, is much better than that. It is an honest, entertaining evocation of the lives and songs of some of the Swedish families that settled in Minnesota in the late 19th century. Singing families developed their own repertories of music and comedy. Two young New Yorkers, David Chambers and Mel Marvin, have researched the tradition of such troupes, studied their sheet music, old newspaper clippings, family photographs and journals, and distilled them into a modest Midwestern saga...
...applicant who qualities for financial aid will be denied help, and some students who would not normally qualify for scholarships will be promised loans and job opportunities in a new policy implemented by both admissions offices this year. Jewett said this move aims at helping "middle and upper income family brackets" afford Harvard...