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Some people have very definite ideas on what is wrong with Harvard. Robert D. Lee '78 is one of them. Lee thinks the most important issue before his group is the student-Faculty relationship, and he believes that the task force will resolve in favor of a warmer attitude on the part of the Faculty...
Chief bench-warmer and ex-Indy sports editor David Smith was absent from the contest. Although not confirmed, rumors claim that the hockey writer was still trying to thumb back from St. Louis where he watched the Harvard icemen dance with grandeur and then leave him behind. He was last seen sitting under the soaring arch in St. Louis next to the Mississippi...
...Even in warmer parts of the South and California-where knee socks are often more of an accessory than a necessity-sales are strong. "People aren't buying them because they're freezing," says Rochelle Toas, a salesclerk at Los Angeles' Potpourri boutique. "They are buying them because they're cute." In Atlanta, Donald Campbell, regional manager of the six Casual Corner shops in the area, complains that the peppy new socks "don't last on the floor more than a few days...
...Namias of Scripps Institution of Oceanography has been investigating unexplained links between ocean temperatures and weather. He has found, for instance, that the formation of hot and cold patches in specific parts of the Pacific appears to be followed by colder-than-normal winters in the Eastern U.S. and warmer-than-normal winters in the West. If enough patterns of that kind can be found, says Namias, they could tip off long-range trends...
...this story, sliding down bannisters remains a valid method of athletic expression. Since the advent of the two-story building, human beings have taken to their asses instead of tripping downstairs, great distance runners have borne the name "bannister" in celebration of the rival sport, and the term "bench-warmer" was bestowed on the American language by the particular frustration of second-string sliders who were forced to maintain more orthodox carriages during key bannister contests...