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...FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, Hair was a living, crying document of the agonies and ecstasies of the sixties. Today it's a period piece. While the original play had excitement, color, and passion, it's risky to try to clothe the show in modern dress and short hair without cheapening its spirit. The production now playing at the Institute of Politics uses a totally new plot as an excuse to string together the original songs. Although the show tries valiantly for three full hours, it never comes to life...
...Fifteen minutes later, a gaggle of aides rushed in from the corner office of Chief of Staff James Baker, where they had been following the vote by telephone hookup to the Senate floor. The count: 52 to 48 in favor of the sale. "Thank God!" exclaimed Reagan. Later, posing for pictures, he answered a photographer's request for "a big smile, Mr. President," by saying: "Tm trying to smile with dignity. I don't want to look jubilant." But he was downright gleeful when he dropped in on applauding aides at a party in the White House basement mess...
Unfortunately, the club had to bypass the Washington tournament this year due to lack of enthusiasm; only two members, two shy of the requisite twelve, signed up to go. The two weekly pratices, Wednesday and Sunday, usually attract between eight and fifteen, "though occasionally less than that," club co-captain Drew Stone admitted...
...David W. Skinner Professor of Political Economy at MIT, predicted a period of difficult transition for universities over the next fifteen years with a decline in the student population and an increasingly "neo-military" political atmosphere throughout the country...
UMass has always been thorn in the Crimson's side. In 1978, Harvard, riding the crest of a two-season, fifteen game winning streak--still the longest in the team's history--lost to the Minutemen in a 2-1 heartstopper...