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...classic brag designed to show that he alone dictated Soviet foreign policy, Nikita Khrushchev once declared: "When I tell Gromyko to take off his pants and sit on a cake of ice, he does it." Last week, after sitting on the ice cake through nearly three years of steadily worsening U.S. -Soviet relations, it looked as if Khrushchev's successors may have at last told Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to get off and hitch up. With the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. already moving toward the conclusion of a New York-to-Moscow air pact and an outer-space treaty...
Though previously little known outside his southern Oregon district, Duncan, a former seaman who still wads his cheeks with snuff and misses no chance to brag about his Scottish ancestry, received nationwide publicity in his primary battle against antiwar Candidate Howard Morgan (TIME, June 3), whom he trounced by an almost 2-to-l margin. Since then, shuttling weekly between House and home, Duncan has become, in his words, "practically a permament resident of United Air Lines...
...begins at Fairbanks, Alaska, where the 707s refuel. Waiting at the runway is an Eskimo with a Gibson refrigerator. The idea is that the not-so-dry Gibsons can snap pictures, brag back home that they sold an icebox to an Eskimo. At Tokyo, a Hong Kong tailor comes aboard to measure for suits and shirts, and between organized activities visitors get an opportunity to spend their own "fun money." "My wife bought herself ten glass-beaded sweaters," complained a Nevada dealer. "I'll have to sell glass-beaded refrigerators when we get home to get even...
Faced by this kind of power, Harvard will rely on its depth--a quantity the Crimson has had more to brag about in years past. Harvard performers will have to be bunched around the West Poin superstars for McCurday and company to win. Lynch and Pardee will have to score heavily, but the second-liners are the key men for Harvard...
...Crimson's only consolation came in preventing Bruin starter Art Di-slar-from registering his fifth win of the as he was knocked from the box five-run sixth inning. That achievement wasn't much to brag about, however, as DiMartino did most of the damage himself, walking five of the seven batters he faced that inning...