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...white, Israeli-made jet, the inexhaustible Reverend Jerry Falwell was on his way to Boston, scheduled to appear the following morning on a television show. During the trip, however, an urgent telephone message arrived: there was a suicide emergency at Falwell's center for alcoholics in Lynchburg, Va. A distraught veteran was threatening to blow his head off with a loaded pistol unless Falwell came back and talked to him. The would-be suicide was put on the phone, and, slick as butter, the Reverend began to calm him. Falwell explained, as one reasonable person to another, that...
...distraught Soviets summoned building guards and demanded an explanation. What had happened to their countryman and boss, Arkady Shevchenko? He was a ranking Soviet diplomat, a former top adviser to Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and, for the past five years Under Secretary-General of the U.N., one of Kurt Waldheim's senior deputies. The two Soviets were told that the office had in fact been sealed at Shevchenko's own request the night before. More alarmed than ever, Shevchenko's assistants hurried to their real headquarters, the Soviet mission on East 67th Street in Manhattan...
...side, one of the Lowell House Tower and the other of a sign reading "Oh, shit! I've been Quaded[sie]! Currier House Sucks!" The Crimson's claim that the-two photographs are "a study in contrast" is completely unfounded. A photographs of a sign scribbled by an obviously distraught freshman offers no comparison to a photograph of the Lowell House Tower. In addition, the photographs have nothing to do with the articles that follow. The Crimson has demonstrated to the Harvard community and to all its readers that the pestilience of journalistic sensationalism exists even...
...Crimson did not intend any slight whatsoever against Currier House. We understand that the opinions of "an obviously distraught" freshman do not reflect life in Currier House. We were in error and regret the publication of the Photogranh The Editors
...Olga then signed a typed letter that said she would stop writing to all members of the Peters family. At least one line of the letter sounded more like Svetlana than Olga: "All right, kill me, send me a letter bomb if you like." Says Olga's distraught father: "I can't believe Olga actually wrote that letter. She must know Marge and I love her and that we'd do anything...