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...sense of community is clearest in the events that surround cooking the dinner. Co-op residents must fend for themselves for breakfast and lunch, but dinner is a communal affair. Although all the co-ops are equipped with large common rooms complete with fireplaces and in some cases TV, the central gathering place for the residents is the kitchen, where co-opers begin drifting...
...when Burt Reynolds, 47, arrived at the White House arm in arm with his old flame Dinah Shore, 66, the Washington press corps quickly turned its attention from international to personal politics. "I wouldn't tell you if it was true," stonewalled Reynolds, as he tried to fend off a barrage of questions about his relationships with Shore and Actress Sally Field, 37, who also happened to be in town. Reynolds was eventually pulled to safety by Nancy Reagan, 62, who teasingly told him, "I think they've got you cornered...
...Reagan Administration has shown little interest in any serious attempts to fend off an arms race in space. The U.S. delegation to Geneva's Committee on Disarmament, for instance, is permitted merely to study the technical and legal terrain. At the United Nations the U.S. has ignored the Soviets' draft treaty to outlaw all space weapons. There has been no official U.S. response to Yuri Andropov's August declaration of a unilateral moratorium on Soviet ASAT launches...
...with winter approaching and 33,000 villagers left homeless, prospects for those who remain are chilling. Already there have been reports from isolated villages of families having to fend off packs of wolves descending on their dead animals. With 30,000 of the area's livestock killed, even the farmers who weather the crisis may find themselves stripped of their livelihood. Survivors in Muratbagi last week spent every day laying the bodies of loved ones to rest and every night shivering in the cold...
When he left in 1955, the collection had grown to 5.9 million volumes, an increase "which speaks for his value to Harvard," Yen Tsai-Fend, librarian of Harvard College, said yesterday...