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...resides somewhere in the freshman dorms. About twice a week he performs his cry, while a recording of jungle noises blares from Mower. Hall. Only a few disgruntled wonks, the University police, and some proctors fail to appreciate the ritual. They have been searching frantically, so far in vain, for a clue to the identify of Tarzan. All they know is that he is a freshman with a remarkable voice and a talent for imitation...
...employees of the Office of Economic Opportunity any raise at all. Many of the most economy-minded Congressmen protested when the Administration recently imposed temporary freezes on certain construction projects. In the course of a six-hour debate last week, members loyal to the faltering Democratic leadership tried in vain to remind the House that 1) Congress has the power and responsibility to set appropriations on its own, and 2) economy could well begin in the House itself...
...Army base live a proud major (Marlon Brando) and his vain wife (Elizabeth Taylor). An inept husband and worse horseman, Brando is continually left at the post while Taylor goes riding with her lover (Brian Keith). Keith's wife (Julie Harris) is a housebound psychotic who he insists is normal until Taylor throws him one of the more memorable lines of her or anyone else's film career: "She cut off her nipples with a pair of garden shears-you call that normal? Garden shears...
Rachael A. Radio '68, a member of the Ad Hoc Committee, said that "the name of Radcliffe cannot be used in vain," but must be reserved for committees elected by the students. A former hunger striker said, "I feel that I have been bypassed...
...guard was needed to protect draft officials; in Cleveland, a mob went beyond tearing up draft cards-it destroyed the box from which draftees' names were chosen. When the first names were drawn in New York City, a general uprising followed. Police Superintendent John Kennedy tried in vain to calm the rioters. The mob, reported one witness, "beat him, dragged him through the streets by his head, pitched him into a horsepond, rolled him into mud gutters, dragged him through piles of filth indescribable." Soldiers, police, militia and naval forces were required to quell the draft riots. Meade...