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Baker continued to Concord, N.H. and to Maine, where today he will woo 1500 Maine Republican leaders scheduled to conduct a straw poll
...both cheeks. The Pope soothingly wiped the sweat from the head of a nervous priest who had been conducting the choir at Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral. In one amazing scene, perhaps as memorable as any that 1979 will offer, John Paul's hearty baritone voice rumbled "Woo-hoo-woo" over the loudspeaker at Madison Square Garden; he was giving the Polish equivalent of "Wow!" as 19,000 youths rocked the arena with nine minutes of spontaneous, frenzied cheers...
...practice, however, more students each year desperately cram for the S.A.T.s. A third of public and private schools in the Northeast now offer some sort of S.A.T. preparation course. Elsewhere around the country, thousands of nervous scholars flock to commercial coaching schools, which drill and review them-and woo them with promises of striking results...
...morning exercises will include three speeches by students. Sabin Willett '79 will deliver the Latin oration, Patty Woo '79 will deliver the undergraduate English oration and Paul K. Rowe '76, will deliver the graduate English oration...
This is his second call. He had fallen in love with Sally the summer before. Now he has come back to woo and win her. Sally is skittish. She has felt woefully unworthy ever since a local merchant prince jilted her because a childhood illness rendered her infertile...