Word: usual
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...usual, Harvard will face some of the nation's top teams during the trip. In the first three days, the Crimson battles C.W. Post, hard-hitting Rutgers, and perenniel powerhouse Navy. Games with Maryland and Farleigh Dickinson conclude the trip. Unlike Harvard, these teams have all been practicing outside and are apt to be well prepared...
...dining hall was dim, the music was loud, and there were lots of people milling around. As usual, few were dancing. Most of the girls were sitting or standing in clots, trying to look conspicuous. Most of the boys were wandering around, sizing up bods, looking for that Girl-in-the-Sky. Later on, they'd go back to their roommates and report how it was such a drag, and well, no, they hadn't met anybody...
...fact, few boys seemed to be trying to meet girls at all. Either they cruised around the room aimlessly, or they appeared to be having token conversations. I overheard the usual, "What courses are you taking?" "When I was in Europe last summer. . . ." "Do you know. . . ." But nothing more substantial or personal than that...
...many relaunderings of the show that it could not possibly have been completed on schedule; the censors, he claims, demanded that several lines be snipped as late as 2 p.m. on Friday, only 20 minutes before the closed-circuit broadcast. "We are not crying wolf," says Tommy, as usual speaking Dickie's mind as well as his own. "We have threatened to give up the show before, but we won concessions and decided to stick with it. But if the network doesn't budge this time, we're through...
...Eclectic Car. In all the planning, the primary goal was to build a car that would list for less than $2,000. To do that-and still allow dealers a reasonable 17% profit (v. the usual 21% to 25% markup)-Ford had to pare the tooling costs. So it built an eclectic car. Maverick owes its front suspension to the Mustang; the steering gear comes straight from the Fairlane; the standard 105-h.p. six-cylinder engine and the rear axle were borrowed from the Falcon. Even so, Maverick's development costs added up to a hefty $71 million...