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...Back in the USSR," he sings, waving an invisible guitar over his head. "Yabadabadaba!" shouts someone as a Magical Mystery Tour Guide throws a box of blurry photos over the balcony. Suddenly, there's a minor re-enactment of mobbing the Beatles; this time it's only pictures. Hands clutch at the paper, as though they were home runs hit into Fenway bleachers. Another memento for the scrapbooks...
...Henry Kissinger's Middle East marathon was a grueling chore for him, it was also something less than a honeymoon for his new wife Nancy. Like her husband, she was constantly shadowed by a hovering clutch of Secret Service men on the breathless course from Algeria to Egypt to Jordan, and back and forth between Syria and Israel. One of the agents even swam parallel with her, stroke for stroke, when she came down to the pool from the sixth-floor apartment that she and her husband occupied at Jerusalem's King David Hotel...
...Because of the problems we'll have to face," says Coach John Baker, "it would be overly optimistic to call us the favorites. But these crews have come through with a lot of clutch performances all year and have never blown the big race. I have lots of faith in them...
...factories. The combined effects of day-to-day wear and tear on asbestos-containing products, as well as a certain degree of industrial planned obsolescence, insure that varying amounts of the fiber will be continuously liberated into the consumer's air. Floor tiles scuff, ironing boards rip and fray, clutch and brake linings are slowly ground down, asbestos cement dust is kicked into the air when buildings are destroyed by demolition companies. Up to a microgram of asbestos is now found in singlevial doses of injectable drugs. This feeds directly into the bloodstream, the equivalent of a week's exposure...
Harvard's top pitching duo, lefty Milt Holt and captain Mike O'Malley, both turned in clutch performances, besting Penn's virtually unbeatable combo of Andy Muhlstock and John Petit. The Crimson hurlers were backed by some timely hitting from the revived Harvard offensive corps...