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...game neared its end, Harvard's hopes became more and more faint. Columbia dealt the death blow to the Crimson in the 78th minute with the most beautiful goal of the game. McCarthy, taking a free kick on the left side about 23 yards from goal, pushed the ball over to Gayle, who bent a Brazilian-style volley into the path of an onrushing Skeene near the right corner of the goal. He finished the triangle by heading over Ginsburg into the left side of the goal...
Chernenko looked tan and thinner, suggesting that he might have really been on a summer vacation, as Soviet officials had claimed. He read a brief address with the same faint and gasping voice as before his absence. But the 72-year-old Soviet leader appeared to have grown more frail. Rather than pinning on the decorations, he simply presented boxed medals to the cosmonauts...
...exactly, although there were similarities. The church was in Richardson, a Dallas suburb, and the congregation (the place was packed) was white, black, Mexican, Oriental, well dressed and not. Small children stretched out on the benches and worked on coloring books. The women wore only faint touches of makeup. At 6 p.m., the temperature was still 108°. "I know it's hot in here," said the minister, standing before a huge gold cross, "but let's just worship the Lord and forget about...
...private U.S. religious, political and relief organizations. Within the next few weeks, Bermúdez said, he intends to move the F.D.N.'s command structure into Nicaragua from its long-established sanctuaries in Honduras. Bermúdez also threatened to carry out attacks against unspecified Nicaraguan cities. The faint prospect of peace might be blowing in the wind at Manzanillo, but in the Nicaraguan countryside, the air was still heavy with the fumes of war. -By George Russell...
...civilian job market of past years, the proportion of high school graduates in the Army worldwide has increased from 55% to 93% since the late 1970s. Officers report that the new enlistee is also better motivated, especially when it comes to assignments like West Germany with the potential, however faint, for combat. Says General Robert L. Wetzel, commander of the V Corps, U.S. Army Europe: "We can now afford to take the cream of enlistees...