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...afternoon in early December, Los Angeles was in the 60s and Ronald Reagan looked like a dream. He was wearing a blue-and-green wool tartan jacket, a purple tie, white shirt, white handkerchief, black pants and black loafers with gold along the tops. Who else could dress that way? He settled back on a couch in a living room so splurged with color that even the black seemed exuberant. A florist must have decorated it. A florist must have decorated his voice. He was talking about job hunting as a kid in his home town of Dixon, Ill., telling...
...give a gift, any gift" has wilted. This year the emphasis is on what the poet Dylan Thomas, in A Child's Christmas in Wales, called "the useful presents." Electric blankets, at retail prices of anywhere from $49.50 to $185, are selling well. So too are classically styled wool and cashmere sweaters. Demand remains strong even for premium-price gifts like food processors...
...convert for the boycott, and thus perhaps helping to avert a tragic repudiation of student activism in the sixties such as acceptance of the CRR would represent. I was quite surprised at the turn the conversation took, for the freshman, rather than being simply a naive tool of the wool-pulling administration, was repeatedly asking an extremely valid question. Why, she asked, is this thing still going on? The boycott, she pointed out, has not resolved the situation. The students, administrators, and even truth-preaching alumni have not solved anything, and the problem lumbers on from year to year unchanged...
When the Government banned the use of poison traps eight years ago, Wyoming Wool Grower John Lye began losing about 10% of his sheep to coyotes. When he tried shooting them, they started attacking at night. Says Lye: "They have an uncanny instinct for trouble." Then he hit upon an exotic ploy. Lye got three llamas, those feisty beasts with keen eyesight, fearsome spit, a mean kick-and a passable resemblance to sheep. At first the coyotes were buffaloed. Every time they came down for a hit the llamas would spit, then stomp and slash with their front hooves...
...Marlon QB 04 Allard QB 05 Foley FB 06 Kazanjian DB 07 Cuccia QB 08 Buckley QB 09 Mills LB 10 Mullen DB 11 Crowley DB 13 Flach K 16 Jacobs DB 17 Delgadillo DB 18 Bianucci HB 20 McCabe HB 21 Bowles SE 22 Killen SE 23 Wool DB 24 Rutecki SE 25 Connors HB 26 Rittenburg K 27 Coppinger DB 28 Riordan CB 30 Beatrice HB 31 Acheson HB 32 Callinan FB 33 Garvey HB 34 Granger FB 35 Ernst HB 42 Carreon SE 43 Smerczynski FB 44 Scheper HB 46 Cody K 47 Golitz FB 50 Plurkowsky...