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...winning isn't everything for the Harvard men's and women's track squads (1-2, 2-1 respectively)--at least not in this weekend's 27th annual running of the GBC's. While a first-place finish would be nice, the Crimson would be content just to have some questions answered...
...nation's largest metropolitan area, and that San Francisco will overtake Bridgeport, Conn., as the country's wealthiest. Los Angeles, which by 1982 had swept past Chicago to gain Second City status, is expected to swell to 8,870,000 regional residents. The San Francisco area will drop from 27th to 28th in population, with 1,634,000, but will enjoy the highest per capita income in the U.S.: nearly...
DIED. John H. Michaelis, 73, retired four-star Army general, whose courage in combat earned him the nickname Iron Mike; of a heart attack; in Clayton, Ga. During the Korean conflict, as commander of the 27th Infantry (Wolfhound) Regiment, Michaelis prepared his men for battle with the famous rallying cry "You're not here to die for your country. You're here to make those so- and-sos die for theirs...
Less surprising than the content of the message was its timing. As Premier, and thus head of the country's 64-member Council of Ministers, Tikhonov had been expected to deliver the state-of-the-government address at the 27th Communist Party Congress, scheduled for next February. His retirement before that date reinforced the impression of Western observers that Gorbachev is determined to overhaul the Soviet economy, for which the Premier is at least nominally responsible. Last June, Gorbachev publicly excoriated four ministers, who reported to Tikhonov, for slipshod work and failure to rectify bureaucratic shortcomings. Nonetheless, Tikhonov...
...party began in January (Kern's 100th birthday was the 27th) when the Postal Service issued a new 22 cents stamp in his honor. It has kept rolling along with concerts, radio and TV tributes, and retrospectives of Kern films from Show Boat to Swing Time. This week marks the premiere of an off- & Broadway revue, Ladies and Gentlemen . . . Jerome Kern, which spans the composer's career from the turn of the century to his death in 1945. In Britain, where the composer met his first stage success (and his only wife), three more revues are wending their way toward...