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...with 700. Kelly will not reveal the SAT score of John ("Hot Rod") Williams, the star among the five players, who are, of course, no longer competing. Williams (who is not registered at Tulane this fall) admitted to an assistant coach that he could not even read the verbal part of the test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Worst of Two Worlds | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...verbal onslaught was the most dramatic sign yet that the days of free wheeling and free spending by the military are over. In Reagan's first term, Congress heeded the President's call to rearm America by giving the Pentagon $1.1 trillion to spend, a 36% increase after inflation. But irked by scandals over $436 hammers and $600 toilet seats and squeezed by the burgeoning budget deficits, Congress has increasingly begun to question whether the U.S. is getting its money's worth in defense spending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drums Along the Potomac | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...basic demagogue's tools of swinging illogically from one emotional touchstone to another, of performing little body shivers that tickle his listeners, of sounding threatening one moment, sweet-talking the next and--essential device--of saying "love" as frequently as possible. But he lacks the timing and the verbal gifts of a virtuoso hatemonger. If Monday night's audience had not already been with him when they entered, Farrakhan could not have won them to his side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Demagogue in the Crowd | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

After reviewing Yale's script, Army's athletic director Carl Ullrich "gave us a lot of verbal abuse," said Rosenblum. "He forbid us to go on the field in any way shape or form. We thought everything we planned to do was fine." Rosenblum, who termed such censorship "preposterous," said he has found that schools outside the Ivy League are not always as receptive to Ivy League humor as those within...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Banned Bands | 10/19/1985 | See Source »

...Daniel J. De LaVega had left Elsie's for their Winthop House rooms shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday morning. They were initially accosted by a group of youths whom Hogewood believes were area high school students. The youths kicked a box at them and began to barrage them with verbal insults, according to Hogewood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop House Junior Mugged Saturday Night | 10/15/1985 | See Source »

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