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...BELL WILL RING next week for Round Two of Ronald Reagan's bout with American higher education, and the President's men have already revealed what his strategy will be. No fancy footwork here; the word...
Wilder attained a U.S. Chess Federation ranking of "Master" at age 13, the youngest person to achieve that honor since former world champion Bobby Fisher. Contacted yesterday at his New Jersey home, where he is recovering from a bout of mononucleosis, the cocky youngster said he hasn't than five minutes thinking about any one move...
...Friends, his latest effort, seemed to promise facing our more recent past through less misty eyes than we've grown accustomed to. The sixties currently enjoy a romantic revival all their own. The music of Jimi Hendrix and the Doors may be even more popular now. Political activist reminisce bout those bolder days. And our first strong president in two decades only makes us miss the Kennedys more. But portraying social issues and confronting them are two different things, and no one in Four Friends seems to know what they're about. Four Friends is particularly disappointing since Penn also...
...acerbic side keeps her at a slight, disquieting remove. Cate periodically feels the urge to "lapse wearily" into a man's care and then bristles angrily at her own weakness. Lydia tries to organize herself into happiness, knowing that each new accomplishment will set the stage for another bout of worry and planning. Stubbornly, she pursues the dream: "It really did seem to her that she had a chance of getting...
...year ago Charles Crandall, 73, was spending most of his days staring at the walls of his San Francisco apartment, subsisting on solitary meals eaten out of cans. Crippled by a childhood bout with polio and suffering from heart disease, he seemed destined for a nursing home. Had that been his fate, he says, "I don't think I would be living now." Instead, California social services agencies enrolled him in a new kind of program for the elderly that allowed him to continue living in his own home. Three days a week, from...