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...that's just not good football sense. I mean, the people sucking down beers at the Dirty (a Deli-Bar-Hangout) a few blocks away knew that halfback Kevin Powell was going to carry the ball up the middle. Nobody knew it better than the Harvard defensive line and linebackers, who smothered Powell for no gain--no easy feat, as Powell was spinning and sliding through tackles like a greased pig for most of the afternoon...
...Monday morning phone call from local radio station WGBH woke Nicolaas Bloembergen and his wife, Deli, but it was well worth it. Bloembergen, the interviewer said, had just been awarded the 1981 Nobel Prize in physics--an honor the Gade University Professor later called "recognition for a lifetime of work...
...their Village Cinema 'n' Drafthouse. Early arrivers get to see old movies and slides from the Duffy brothers' collection of W.C. Fields, Charlie Chaplin and the Marx brothers. Admission is only $1 a head. Food and drinks cost less than they do at competing entertainment spots: deli sandwiches average $2, a pitcher of beer or a carafe of wine, $4.50. "It's very difficult to get people to go out," says John Duffy. "We wanted to provide a revolutionary idea, the little 'oomph' to go to a movie...
...reconvened in the Secretary's conference room on the third floor of the Treasury Building. For the next nine hours they negotiated over the method for transferring the assets to Iran, while consuming gallons of coffee along with chicken salad and roast beef sandwiches from the Capitol Hill Deli. Meanwhile, telephone and telex lines were kept open round the world. Explained one banker: "All this had to be communicated periodically by telex to the Iranians to make sure that it was O.K. We conveyed each document as we concluded it." Government officials participated very little in the discussions. "There...
...George J. Church. Reported by Marcia Gauger/New Deli and Gary Lee/Washington