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...before the Iowa debate, Bush's staff persuaded him to face the press in an impromptu news conference. The scene conveyed as much as the evasive answers: Bush cornered by a knot of reporters, undeterred by the almost arctic temperatures. For 15 minutes he challenged the premise of many questions and repeatedly pleaded a failure to remember. He staunchly refused to discuss what advice he had given the President, although he has portrayed himself at times as a solid supporter of the arms-to-Iran fiasco and at other times as a man who expressed some private reservations...
...arctic blast that swept down from Canada and froze the face of the nation last week made Americans look like motley snowmen. Out they ventured in funny fur hats, layered sweaters, mittens, turned-up collars and ski masks. The luckiest ones spent as much time as possible near the radiator, as little as necessary out of doors...
...vital forces had been decaying in this manner for several weeks when a phone rang in my dark, airless, and bitterly cold cubicle one day in the first week of January. Overwhelmed as it was by the whistle of the arctic gale forcing its way through fist-size holes in the plastic wrap covering my window, the sound of the ringer at first hardly reached me through the pile of soiled rags into which I had burrowed for warmth...
...Arctic Joe: Restic said he did not feel the cold until he left the Bowl at game's end. Then it hit him. By Joe, it was cold...
PLAYING on a frozen tundra in the middle of the noted arctic wasteland of New Haven, the Harvard football team this Saturday turned in a performance which did its university proud. Battling the evil Eli for the 104th time, with the Ivy title on the line for only the fourth, the Crimson warriors came away with a 14-10 victory. Led by junior halfback Tony Hinz, who scored both Harvard touchdowns, and a fearsome defensive front seven, the Crimson--picked by most pre-season pundits to finish near the bottom of the Ancient Eight--captured its first Ivy crown since...