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Although they pulled back from the brink of a major confrontation in Warsaw, the increasingly militant workers are plainly in no mood to pussyfoot. In two towns last week they occupied government offices. Textile employees also walked off the job in Lodz, and pay disputes interrupted operations at a reported 30 coal mines in the industrial region of Silesia. Commuter lines in Warsaw and Gdansk were briefly shut down when railway workers and the government clashed over how to distribute $6.3 million in pay raises. TASS, the official Soviet news agency, warned that "the threat of a general transport strike...
...most of the first 20 minutes, the Crimson appeared on the brink of blowing the Minutemen out of the musty confines of the Curry Hicks cage, jumping out to early leads of up to 14 points and a 54-42 halftime advantage...
This fall, you followed Jeff and Larry Grafstein as they traveled with the football team to West Point, Philadelphia and the brink of an Ivy Championship. You and Mike Bass watched the women's soccer team soar to a third-place finish in the nation, and you charted the rejuvenation of the men's soccer team with Mark Doctoroff, along with reading his voluminous coverage of House Football...
...week. But if Althusser murdered her, it was as a man whose mental balance had disastrously deteriorated. Calling on the suspect in Paris' Sainte Anne hospital, a judge who had come to tell Althusser that he was being charged with voluntary homicide deemed him too far beyond the brink to be informed or questioned. The judge summoned a panel of psychiatrists to determine whether one of the great minds of France would ever be able to stand trial...
...years of theatergoing," marveled Irving Wardle, the Times theater critic. After a column by the Times's Bernard Levin that was a mixture of rave, clarion call and marching order, Nicholas Nickleby became not only a triumph but a phenomenon. The R.S.C. was back from the brink again...