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...even his memories to himself. Grant quit films in 1966 after Walk, Don 't Run, a relative failure. After that, the public saw only the odd, tastefully tantalizing glimpse of a man minding his own cheerful-seeming business, playing a graceful front man for Fabergé cosmetics, doting on his fifth wife, Barbara, and his daughter Jennifer, 20, by his marriage to Actress Dyan Cannon. It was more than usually shocking in his sudden death of a stroke last week as he prepared for a charity appearance in Davenport, Iowa. One thought he might even elude mortality...
...even though the actions represented most of what the sidelines doctors had prescribed, the furor over "Iranscam" barely abated. When Reagan's departed National Security Adviser John Poindexter and his renegade deputy Lieut. Colonel Oliver North appeared before a Senate committee, both invoked the Fifth Amendment. Robert McFarlane, Poindexter's predecessor and an early promoter of establishing contacts with Iran, did respond to Senate interrogators, but he cast doubt on Reagan's claims about what the President knew and when he knew it. As a flood of disclosures about North's secret arms network fueled fascination with details...
...playground slowly took shape, the pace quickened. Sometimes bad weather or ebbing enthusiasm can delay the work, but the Ocean Breeze project was free of such annoyances. By midafternoon of the fifth day, Robert Becker, 26, was delivering a final batch of sand in a borrowed backhoe, while Gary Craycroft, who had last hung swings for his baby daughter Penny, now put them up with her help. Said Penny, 14: "It's been neat. I'll never forget working at night with the lights on." But Leathers is out to impress the adults as much as their children. "They start...
...Harvard men’s basketball team gears up to play its first games after reading and exam period, senior center Brian Cusworth is getting ready to play his last games as a collegian.The fifth-year senior from St. Louis finished his eighth semester and his Harvard degree in biology this January, rendering him ineligible, as a midyear graduate, to play for the Crimson during the second term. Tonight’s game against Yale and tomorrow night’s versus Brown at Lavietes Pavilion are thus the final salvos of Cusworth’s career, which has spanned...
...himself was so far behind on credits that he had to shuttle between regular classes and a credit recovery program that felt a bit like detention. Not only was he was unable to graduate with his class, but he was also likely looking at a full fifth year in order to graduate...