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...Republican Leader John Rhodes with a sly twinkle. A roar of laughter rolled through an abnormally cheery House chamber. Just elected the 48th Speaker of the House on a straight party-line vote of 290 to 142, Democratic Congressman Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill replied with a good-natured dig of his own. "My colleague well knows I understand that he has his eye on the Speaker's seat," said O'Neill. "I am sure that is all he has on it." More laughter...
...lateness for the next match. He methodically disposed of senior Mark Urken, 15-7, 15-7, 15-6. Without bothering to remove his sweats, the freshman kept his older opponent off balance, strategically placing his shots. Stubbs coolly watched his harried foe's frustrated charges into the walls to dig out unreturnable shots...
Unfortunately for the Ephmen (where do they dig up those nicknames, anyway?), pretty good against Harvard only means that you win two games all afternoon, and while Ken Ehrlich's 3-2 triumph tripled the number of games that the Crimson has relinquished all season, the record still stands at 81 up, three down...
...authors' conclusions about an aborted British rescue plot. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has stonewalled on the question of whether U.S. archives also contain documents regarding American complicity in a rescue plot. The authors do not claim that their conclusions are complete. But they are continuing to dig-and the new findings, especially in the U.S. archives, may be even more sensational than the intriguing material they have already unearthed. David Tinnin
...launching the book he asked for and received Arafat's promise of assistance. But when Kiernan returned to the PLO leader in 1975, it became clear that his expectations differed from those of Arafat's, who had pictured the biography as a propaganda vehicle and refused to help Kiernan dig below the myth which his subject had so carefully constructed. Kiernan relied for most of his information on interviews with members of Arafat's family and "Abu Ammar's acquaintances. However, this belies another source of weakness, for Kiernan had to depend on an interpreter in conducting his interviews...