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They find solace in the presence of others their age who have not yet tried marijuana-or listen spellbound to a youngster who claims he has. They display as much interest in girls as anyone else their age, and so they ponder the mysteries of love. A few wise guys have smuggled in copies of the latest Playboy, and these are assiduously examined under blankets by flashlight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Virginia: The Boy Scouts Encamp | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

Harvard fields other intercollegiate squads in the fall, but, with the possible exception of a perenially terrific woman's soccer team, they draw little fan interest. But whether you're watching the crew boats--Cambridge's most popular way of doing nothing--jogging, or sleeping, it is wise to do it outside in this area's most beautiful season. Intramural tackle football among the Houses will never be mistaken for the NFL, but many people enjoy it a lot. Check out a game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fight Fiercely Harvard: | 8/14/1981 | See Source »

...jelly-bean ice cream had existed in the first quarter of the century, soda jerks would have translated it into cocky fountain lingo. Dickson has compiled a marvelous glossary of such wise-guy locutions, including "Hoboken special," which for some reason signified a pineapple soda with chocolate ice cream, and "twist it, choke it and make it cackle" for a chocolate malted with an egg (twist presumably for the twisting of the malted-milk beater, choke for chocolate, and cackle, of course, for the chicken that laid the egg). New scoop shops do not seem to have developed such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ice Cream: They All Scream for It | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

Charles did not always appear to think so; not at first anyway. When he and Diana posed on the back terrace of Buckingham Palace on their engagement day, he acted as if he had made a wise choice, a becoming choice, but perhaps not a compelling one. "Are you in love?" asked a reporter. His fiancée beamed, blushed and said yes. The Prince's answer: "Whatever love means"-a remark of rather too much objectivity, hinting at even a touch of weariness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magic in the Daylight | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...Bollay is launching the first of five one-week sessions at St. John's Beaumont School near Old Windsor, England; capacity enrollment is expected. In the U.S., the cost of the camps ranges between $300 and $400 per week. Though these campers may be more computer-wise than their peers, they have not entirely abandoned tradition. Epidemics of short-sheeting coexist with robotics and PASCAL. And, like campers everywhere, eleven-year-old Evan Katzman of Homestead, Fla., is quick to give a visitor the classic rating of camp food. Says he: "It's the pits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Camps for Computers | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

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