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...student applications leveled off at Minnesota's small but academically topnotch Carleton College? Research by college officials revealed that high school seniors from warmer climes were shivering over the thought of Minnesota's winters. Prospects from the East Coast worried whether Carleton was prestigious enough; laid-back Westerners, on the other hand, figured the campus might be too formal. So Carleton changed its admissions pitch. Into a shiny, new brochure went a photo of skiing on campus. Those effete Eastern intellectual snobs got a letter filled with information about faculty achievement. Westerners were told about nearby hiking trails...
...Behan said" I respect kindness to human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law: I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer." By this point in his life, 1959. Behan had mellowed considerably, the former impassioned rebel who, twenty years earlier-as a sixteen-year old member of the Irish Republican Army-was arrested in Liverpool for the possession of explosives, had long dispensed...
...journey will be a luxury cruise. Columbia's interior is pressurized to a normal earth atmosphere so the astronauts will be able to wear comfortable cotton coveralls for most of the trip. Young and Crippen will sleep in their cockpit seats, tote along an electric food warmer to heat up freeze-dried and other packaged food (sample menu: shrimp cocktail, beefsteak, butterscotch pudding and grape drink). On future missions, with as many as seven people aboard, Columbia will have a fully equipped galley as well as sleeping bunks. Young, who had to make do with the hoses and plastic...
...students leave, sad to say, that remains the truth. For Harvard Square, the local icons remain ice cream flavors, and in the rest of Cambridge, the largest congregations gather under the lights to watch beery softball games. But the pace does slow down a little as the weather gets warmer...
This much is history: the new President, flying in from his warmer clime, was inaugurated in freezing Washington amid water rationing in the unseasonably warm West, crippling natural gas shortages in the Northeast, and record-breaking cold as far South as Miami. The year was 1977, and a Washington meteorologist said: "Jimmy Carter's first confrontation as President will not be with the Russians, but with the weather." Just to assure that Ronald Reagan is similarly humbled by elements beyond his control, nature has conjured up another trial by ice and drought for a new Administration...