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...Eighteen Crimson personal fouls gave Williams its only scoring opportunities, but the Cows missed all but nine of their 21 free throws...
...Eighteen months later, his brilliant career was in ruins. Findings that were touted only last summer as a fundamental breakthrough in the understanding of carcinogenesis have been branded fraudulent. Colleagues discovered that his results included protein gels-isolated bits of cellular matter-that were cunningly doctored to look like something they were not. While Spector denied any wrongdoing, he was expelled from the Cornell lab, withdrew his Ph.D. thesis, even though it had already been approved, and quit the university. Important aspects of his work may yet turn out to be true, but few believe he will ever be able...
...passed, 195 to 187, a continuing resolution that the President's aides calculated would mean spending $8 billion more than Reagan wanted. It was the President's first significant congressional defeat, and it came about because the once solid Republican lines in the House broke. Eighteen Republicans from the Northeast and Midwest, part of a group that has nicknamed itself the Gypsy Moths, voted against the President because they feared further reductions in social services that their constituents value...
...miles uptown from Capitol Hill, at Dupont Circle. He still hasn't broken the place in yet: it's a bit understaffed, scantily furnished, and the walls are bare except for some old McGovern '72 posters. This is the first new office George McGovern has had in eighteen years. The one he used to have, in the Russell Senate Office Building, belongs now to James Abdnor, the New Right Republican who won the 1980 election for senator in South Dakota...
Paris, Aug. 30. An explosion ripped through and heavily damaged the lobby of the Inter-Continental Hotel. Eighteen guests and employees were injured. There was no credible claim of responsibility...