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...recent injuries of B.U. and Harvard starters leave today's outcome in question. Terrier co-captain Dan Osmanski (142lbs.) dislocated his elbow in a match with MIT Thursday night and B.U. coach Dick Gibney has been hard pressed to find a solid replacement...
...opened the door a crack, then threw himself against it when he saw the armed men, and yelled for his roommates to flee. Weinberg was hit by a burst of submachine-gun fire through the door. Boxer Gad Zavary bounced out of bed, broke a window with his elbow and climbed out. "They fired after me," he said. "I heard the bullets whistling by my ears...
...broadcasting, it is not necessarily the sharpest wit but the pointiest elbow that often gets the prize. At the convention's end, when the preliminary rating report showed ABC with the greatest gain, Bill Sheehan beamed like a cheerleader. "We're going to be No. 2 by the end of the year. We're breathing down NBC's neck. We're basking in momentum." At NBC there was private worry: "Does the Chancellor-Brinkley team have enough-I don't know -enough sex, enough viewer appeal?" asked an executive. "We just...
...Secretary of State William Rogers, Yemen renewed relations with Washington; they had been broken off at the outbreak of the 1967 war. Last week the Sudan did the same thing for the same reasons: the opportunity for more helpful technical assistance from the U.S. and more political elbow room. Algeria, till now another Arab state hostile to Washington, may soon join them...
...winter's day at nine o'clock in the morning, I slipped coming downstairs. A young stranger caught me by the elbow. His hand was strong and full of restraint. I saw short fingers with flat nails. Pale fingers with soft black down on the knuckles." Thus Hannah, a pretty young student at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, met a geologist-to-be named Michael Gonen. This novel by the popular Israeli writer Amos Oz is Hannah's first-person account of her ten-year marriage to Michael. The sentences fall like the drip drip drip...