Word: fairings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Radcliffe novice crew made a fair showing in the Mount Holyoke regatta Saturday, placing boats 12th and 13th in a field of 19 entries in the first competition of the season...
...Great!," said egg roll vendor Linda Loui, who has worked at the Oktoberfest for the past two years. "When we told [Executive Director of the Harvard Square Business Association] Sally Alcorn, the director of the fair, that we were bringing Chinese food, she was thrilled. People want to see something different," she said...
...vendor from Tacos El Bruce, "Business is lousy. People aren't drinking and eating because there's no booze." On the other hand, the vendors of arts, crafts, and other non-food items were overwhelmingly in favor of the new policy. Sona Belle, who sold Balinese jewelry at the fair, recalls: "[Last year] it got seedy toward the end. We were right next to a paddy wagon, and police were handcuffing a youth; it was kind of violent." Asked how business was going, she commented, "It's basically the same, but this is nicer. People who came to Oktoberfest...
...with a lengthy excerpt from a soon-to-bepublished memoir by Elena Bonner, who lives in exile in the closed city of Gorky with her husband, Andrei Sakharov, the Nobel-prizewinning physicist and spiritual leader of the Soviet dissident movement. Bonner's son-in-law electrified the Frankfurt Book Fair last week with the news that despite repeated Soviet efforts to destroy Sakharov's own memoirs, they have been preserved, are now in the West, and will eventually also be published...
...dimension to his view of the Russians, and he believes the circumstances of the U.S.-Soviet rivalry have changed as well. The result is an apparent contradiction that should be no surprise to veteran Reagan watchers. "He wants a summit. He wants an arms- control agreement -- one that is fair and maybe even verifiable," says a close White House aide. "He doesn't want to lose the opportunity." Still, Reagan retains a deep distrust of Soviet motives and a conviction that the U.S. must stay strong and alert. The President, says one loyalist, "is carrying these two conflicting concepts...