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...slaved over the books under a 15 watt lightbulb, says Dean Whitlock, then assistant to Pusey for community and government affairs. When Pusey sent Whitlock to ask Cohen if Harvard could have a strip of land on Mt. Auburn Street where Tommy's and Cahaly's are now for a Bertha Cohen Memorial Park when the elderly widow died, Whitlock recalls "She cursed me out and told me that the last thing she wanted was a park named...
...days before the jump, Knievel appeared at the launch site to pose for pictures. When someone asked him to smile, Knievel responded by snarling "I don't smile unless I want to. Who asked me to smile?" Singling out NBC Cameraman Jim Watt as the culprit, Knievel sprang at him and beat him to the ground with his $22,000 gold-and-dia-mond-headed walking stick. A crowd of bikers, kept behind a chain-link fence, roared their approval, and moments later stomped on a U.P.I, reporter and ground out a cigarette butt on his forehead. Enraged...
...nation of 5 million people with its own language, democratic tradition and legal system, but without so much as a single self-governing political body. "We have an entire nation that has been submerged into believing it is inferior," says Author Robert Shirley, 46, of Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University. Recalls Hugh MacDiarmid, the country's greatest living poet: "When I was in school, you were punished if you lapsed into the Scots dialect. You were never taught much more about your own country than, of course, what a great thing it was to have been handed over...
...neat bit of story-line legerdemain Stones contrives that neither deserves the tube, and awards it to the rightful owner--the giant rat of sumatra, which for centuries has watched over the tube in the temple of Ampere-Watt. The English-man is very proper and aesthetically motivated. Class war is avoided, and Jonas Acme continues to grease the proletariat with Pig-oil beer--which doesn't make this record very revolutionary...
When America finally came home from Viet Nam, journalists and their editors were faced with a new problem:How to report back that the light at the end of the tunnel had turned out to be a 40-watt bulb? The editors at the New York Times Magazine had a thought. Anxious for a piece on "the sights, the sounds, the smells of Viet Nam-after the end," they chose Novelist James Jones. Viet Journal, an extensive outgrowth of the trip that produced the magazine article, is pitched perfectly for the mood of the times-a book about Viet...