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Behind the strength of a doubles sweep, Harvard (4-1 overall, 0-0 Ivy) coasted to an easy 8-1 win over the Terriers (4-6 overall) yesterday at the Palmer-Dixon Courts...
...Harris, Army, 6:40; 2. C. Anderson, Yale, 6:43; 3. T. Dixon, Navy...
...battlefront, but the war over condom distribution in schools is spreading across the country. One high school in Cambridge, Mass., three in Chicago, three in Los Angeles and one in Miami already dispense the devices to students through in-school health clinics, if parents give their consent. Sharon Pratt Dixon, the newly inaugurated mayor of Washington, backed school-based condom programs during her election campaign, provided students receive instruction in human reproduction and safe-sex practices...
...America Ronald Reagan somehow made way for the New Paradigm by allowing the nation to feel for a time innocent again. All of that seems far away now. Reagan took America so far back into its Old Paradigm (a dream of America, a nostalgia for Dixon, Ill.) that it emerged refreshed, if only for a little while. America is Old Paradigm. But the genius of the country, beyond its natural wealth and its Constitution, has been its capacity for self- transformation, for renewal, for improvisation -- the gift of old paradigms for begetting new paradigms...
...Dixon said that at least a few of the biases, like the belief that "men are decisive, but women are honest." were beneficial...