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...locker room is swimming in a sea of signs--puns, track jokes, and words of encouragement. For on Sunday in the stadium, Harvard faces Yale for the 76th time in a special rivalry that the Crimson and the Eli have managed to preserve in an era that has seen many other traditions perish...
...PROMISE so long coming, spoken at last. Within the shadow of monuments to a different promise?the statues of Confederate soldiers, of the political captains of a demagogic past?James Earl Carter Jr., 76th Governor of Georgia, delivered his inaugural address. It heralded the end of that final Southern extravagance, the classic rhetoric of "never." The reality of 17 years of court decisions, demonstrations, black-voter registration and legislation was clearly seen across the South as Carter and other moderate Governors took office this year, giving the region new political voices, new images, new goals...
That there are votes up for grabs was confirmed two weeks ago by A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany during his 76th birthday press luncheon. "Our people are looking less to the Democrats," he said, "because, actually, the Democratic Party has disintegrated-it is not the so-called liberal party that it was a few years ago. It almost has got to be the party of the extremists. More and more [they] are going to lose the support of our members." When a reporter asked if the man at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue knew that, too. Meany said emphatically: "You bet your...
Richer by Degas. On East 76th Street, just a block from Collectors Edgar and Bernice Garbisch, is the six-story town house of Austrian-born Sam Salz, at 76 the dean of New York's private dealers. At the moment Salz is in Europe on a scouting and buying trip, a journey he makes two or three times each year. But during the season, the visitor who rings the plain, unmarked bell is let in by a deferential porter in livery and escorted past a larger than life-sized Maillol nude in terracotta and a 14th century A.D. wooden...
...deep inside Syria, in reprisal for Syrian attacks on Israeli positions on the Golan Heights. Two days later, Lebanon protested to the United Nations over Israeli shelling of three border villages. In a five-hour aerial battle over Suez, the Israelis claimed to have downed a MIG-21 -their 76th kill of an Egyptian jet during the thousand days...