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Even as intermittent bursts of cannon fire marred the uneasy calm, both the Christians and their enemies prepared for a new outbreak of fighting. From Damascus, convoys of Syrian trucks transported 8,600 heavily armed Palestine Liberation Army commandos to fortified positions in Beirut. The P.L. A. commandos will be the backbone of a new Syrian-controlled antimilitia alliance comprising leftist Lebanese Muslims, Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization and an army commanded by pro-Syrian Christian for mer President Suleiman Franjieh. The Arab League mandate under which the Syrian peace-keeping force has occupied Lebanon since 1976 will...
...change in the fortunes of the Series. Yankee Third Baseman Graig Nettles, acquired in a trade with Cleveland before the 1973 season, made a spectacular diving catch of a line drive. In the next game, back in Yankee Stadium, Nettles showed he had the millisecond reflexes and cannon arm to be ranked with Brooks Robinson at third. When a weary-armed Ron Guidry turned shaky on the mound, Nettles stifled Dodger rally after rally. Any one of his four sprawling, crawling, flying, levitating plays would have made an ordinary third baseman's season, and together they unmade the Dodgers...
MacMurray has no grand illusions about his answer to the punting question. He knows he is not a cannon-legged messiah here to save the Crimson charges and nail the coffin corner shut on grid-iron foes. He simply believes he can kick a football and little by little he has been erasing the question mark that shrouded the Harvard punting game in the preseason forecasts...
Lehnus, who teaches at the University of Puerto Rico, spent eight months on his project. His starting point was Faces in the News, a booklet published by TIME in 1976 that showed all the magazine's covers since House Speaker Joe Cannon's inaugurating appearance March 3, 1923. Lehnus then tracked down biographical information on each of the subjects, fed them into computer memory banks and cross-referenced them to a fare-thee-well...
...Mass primary today, the ones you're sure to recognize both belong to Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill, Congressional representative of the 8th Disctict (including his home turf, Cambridge) and Speaker of the House. Tip has been pretty busy this year in Washington, what with restoring Uncle Joe Cannon's post to its former grandeur and fending off charges of involvement in Koreagate. You've seen his, uh, craggy Irish face splashed all over newspapers and magazines...