Word: camps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hofer, a product of Andover, whose skiing experience has included weekend skiing since the age of four and four summers of racing camp at the Red Lodge. Montana glacier, the ski team fills something of a gap. "In most things you do at Harvard, there isn't a sense of common purpose," he says. "On the ski team, you eat, sleep and train with these people. You live with them during the winter. There is a real sense of community on the team. The people are the finest in the world. I can't begin to say how much...
...nine, I took in an old CBS favorite, MASH, which, unfortunately is now showing its age. The plot, stretched thinly to cover the endless series of wisecracks from the ever-genial Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda), concerned the creation of an independent state in the camp saloon. MASH has developed a company, much like that of the lamented Mary Tyler Moore Show, which can sustain an occasional weak plot. After Flatbush, even mere competency would seem like The Tempest...
...oversell the treaty. Carter's foreign policy has too often rested on flashy form without real substance. The Camp David agreements made headlines, but have fallen into disarray; the January Guadaloupe summit with European leaders was all sun and smiles, but did not even result in issuance of an official communique. SALT II must be different. Exaggerating the treaty's benefits or painting over its weaknesses will only damage its credibility. SALT is no panacea for the arms race; even if both sides sign it, there will still be loopholes, violations, and dangerous escalation of qualitative arms competition. Though both...
Last summer the French arranged a reconciliation between Malloum and Habre. But the two men quarreled over sharing power under the proposed constitution. Said a French source: "There's no questioning Malloum's integrity; he prefers a camp bed to a palace. But he is a hopeless politician. Habre was named Premier, but he remained a guerrilla. There was complete incompatibility between...
Carter retreated to Camp David to think. Then he called a press conference. "We will settle this thing once and for all," he smiled. "We will invite them to"−and here he picked up a shiny white object and began tossing it with one hand−"a game of baseball...