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They have become assets to the team, not only in the pool but also out of it. The Wookies can be pranksters while on deck. Once during swimming practice they decided to hide from everybody inside two eight-foot stacks of innertubes...
...council's three-hour moonlight cruise on the Harbor will feature dancing, a disc jockey, two cash bars. and a third deck that Social Committee Co-Chairman Jonathan S. Leff '90 described as a "romantic area...
...Secretary Shultz has a different deck of cards than I had," Kissinger told TIME Correspondent Bruce van Voorst in Washington last week. "When I was out there, the Israelis had the Egyptian Third Army surrounded in the Sinai and their army was pressing at the gates of Damascus. In addition, you now have a pair of extremely tough guys in ((Prime Minister Yitzhak)) Shamir and ((Foreign Minister Shimon)) Peres." Tougher than the U.S. might like, according to Kissinger. "Shultz doesn't know it, but it's in the nature of things that the Israelis won't settle until everyone...
...high-rise windows, narrowly missing the cruisers. The Guardian Angels have taken to patrolling the buses, but drivers complain that the red-bereted figures make them a more attractive target. On the Guardians' first bus patrol two weeks ago, Founder Curtis Sliwa and his squad hit the deck along with terrified passengers when a lead pipe smashed through a window and the bus was showered with rocks...
...loose satellites to his own. Now he writes to them, phones at regular intervals, actively seeks their company. Old friends are Chaucerian, the Captain declares; the tolerance is wide, the ironies gentle. No gassed-up urgencies, no panic, no competitiveness. You stand with them shoulder to shoulder as on deck, looking out at a time that you at once control and do not control, hearing the footsteps of the young gaining ground while you go about the business of nursing elders or burying them...