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...quite-Ivy teams suffered weekend ignominy in New England. Stanford came tumbling down at the hands of an upstart B.C. team, 30-13, sending the hometown faithful reeling in delight...
...citizens were struggling for an identity apart from that of decorous Mother England. This was a country in adolescent turbulence. No wonder, then, that so many Australian novels (and now films) are tales of young nonconformists seeking liberation through maturity or anarchy. In The Getting of Wisdom, a bright upstart triumphs over the snobbery of her classmates; in The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, an engaging half-caste succumbs to racism and flails into psychopathy...
...hand, the company's privileged monopoly status is under attack in the courts by the Justice Department as well as some 37 private companies, which are pressing their own antitrust suits against Bell. In June, upstart little MCI of Washington, D.C. (sales: $144 million annually), won a staggering $1.8 billion in damages from a federal court in Chicago after charging that A T & T had conspired to block its entry into the long-distance telephone market. Now MCI is selling its phone service in such leading markets as New York City, Houston and San Diego. The company...
...says upstart Johnny, as Manhattan's model wars rage...
Some observers feel, on the other hand, that a conviction would be to Mugabe's benefit because it could weaken the party's radical wing and enable Mugabe to replace a sometimes troublesome upstart in the secretary-general's post. It would also help Mugabe smooth his relations with Joshua Nkomo, his former co-leader in the Patriotic Front guerrilla alliance. In a series of personal attacks, Tekere had recently demanded that Nkomo be "crushed" and that his party, which controls four of the 25 Cabinet seats, be banished into permanent opposition. Tekere's removal from...