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...hostility to Reagan prompted San Antonio City Councilman Van Archer to complain: "There's just no way in the world I can understand how 200 women who don't shave their legs can claim to speak for the women of America." His remark suggested a poor eye for legs as well as for polls. The women of America, in every social, economic and racial group and in every geographic region, have consistently given President Reagan a poorer performance rating than have men. A New York Times/CBS News poll revealed that among Republicans the discrepancy between...
DIED. Ross Macdonald, 67, writer of taut, psychologically acute detective novels; of Alzheimer's disease, which he had had for three years; in Santa Barbara, Calif. In such books as The Moving Target, The Gallon Case and The Chill, his sleuth Lew Archer roamed Southern California through false fronts and cracked surfaces to unearth his clients' dark familial sins and secrets that almost always led to murder. Born Kenneth Millar, he adopted his pseudonym after his wife Margaret became a successful mystery novelist. Though his early work echoed Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, his only peers among modern...
...Archer won the Pudding's Midnight Madness lottery, which treated her and friend Robert S. Keane '85 to a limousine ride to Logan Airport, two round-trip plane tickets to Miami, accommodations for three days and nights in the Fontainebleau Hotel, and a food allowance...
...idea that I had won until I woke up on the plane to Miami, because it happened so fast," said Archer, upon the couple's return to Cambridge yesterday morning Keane added. "The trip was really fun I spent most of the time lying on the beach and windsurfing...
...Archer said she had not originally planned to enter the contest, but did so at the encouragement of a friend...