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Correspondent James Willwerth has covered war in Saigon and peace (almost as harrowing) in the streets of New York City. Last week he was on his new beat in Hollywood, but his subjects were presumably still tough: Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood. "Covering illusion, I suspect, is going to be just as confusing as reporting reality," says Willwerth. Part of the confusion came from spending a few days with Reynolds. The flashy-flip, skirt-chasing, tire-burning macho hero of Semi-Tough, and a score of other cinematic excursions, proved to be a "semi-shy, urbane homebody." It turns...
Then he started to play on the prison's beat-up piano. As the glow of the gospel music touched the audience of disheveled, jean-clad and self-segregated men-blacks seated on the left, whites on the right, Chicanos in front-they began to thaw. Black prisoners started to sway, clap their hands rhythmically and shout an occasional hallelujah. One white inmate drummed his tattooed fingers and pulled at a diamond ornamentally embedded in his ear lobe...
...went against the Crimson had ended differently the swordsmen would have remained unbeaten. If any of the six fencers who won two of their three bouts had gone 3-0 the duelers would still have a perfect record. If. But that's not the way it happened, as Army beat Harvard...
...surveys, and by cooperation the left could capture a controlling majority in the 487-member National Assembly. But failure to form a solid coalition dooms the leftist parties to defeat. Because of the intricacies of the "scrutin majoritaire," the French electoral system, center and right parties could combine to beat out a divided left in the runoff elections...
After Clarkson went ahead 1-0, when Craig Laughlin beat the firey Murphy with a deflection off a Terry Conroy drive from the point, the Crimson's Jack Hughes characteristically deeked two opponents and slapped a blazing shot past Clarkson's amazed freshman goalie, Ken Moore...