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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan's appeal failed to sway at least four Republican opponents of the sale, and Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Ca), a leader of the opposition to the sale, said his vote count still shows 55 senators committed to or against the sale...
...followed Redskin progress avidly, and in the mornings I always beat my brother to the Washington Post sports page, eager to drink up whatever new story the reporters had seen fit to write that day. The paper never failed me--you can always count on the Redskins to have the most important billing on the sports page for weeks before the pre-season begins, until weeks after the season finally ends. It always takes several weeks to bury the Redskins; every game is rehashed, and every possible theory that can be advanced for either their success or failure...
...past six weeks, the Administration seems to have lost some of its magic touch, and Reagan can no longer even count on the solid support of his own party. He is entering a crucial period when the very substance of his economic philosophy is being tested by reality and challenged by Congress. But the President remains an irrepressible optimist. As he grappled with his economic predicament and the recalcitrance on Capitol Hill last week, he told an old joke about the ever-hopeful little boy who finds himself standing amid a pile of horse manure on Christmas morning. The punch...
Army coach Ed Cavanaugh elected to go for the first down, and his decision was justified when half the Crimson defense jumped offside on a long count to give the Cadets a first and ten at the Crimson...
DIED. Helen Humes, 68, torchy, mellow-voiced jazz singer who, after appearing with Count Basic from 1938 to 1942, went on to a solo career that spanned 40 years; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. Humes, a rhythm-and-blues star with her 1945 hit Be Baba Leba, retired in 1967 but staged a comeback six years later, singing in the U.S. and Europe until illness forced her to quit last year...