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...Bruins managed to grab tenth place, with John Davey running the course...
...recent play, the team defeated'four other squads to grab the MIT Invitational Tournament last weekend...
Unfortunately, the debates often concerned little more than narrow ethnic prejudices. According to anti-Marketers, EEC membership would allow "dirty Italians" to steal Norwegian jobs and "rich Germans" to grab Norwegian land. As the election approached, windows were smashed and radio aerials ripped from cars bearing Ja til EF-yes to EEC-bumper stickers...
...three years, Brazil's military rulers have flown some 130 jailed leftists out of the country in order to free four kidnaped diplomats (one of them an American). Now, Brazilian officials suggest that they will not be so quick to open the prison gates the next time terrorists grab a foreign diplomat. In the wake of Munich, angry Washington officials were saying that "the U.S. view is now close to that of the Israelis." In a flurry of announcements, the Administration promised special efforts to protect American Jews traveling abroad and to lead a global diplomatic attack on terrorist...
...G.O.P. messengers were immediately ordered to retrieve the scripts. The BBC people refused to yield theirs. "Extraordinary," commented Charles Wheeler, BBC'S chief American correspondent, as he examined the document. "How do you Americans say it? Really a screw-up." Republican Committee Staffer Kit Wisdom tried to grab the pages from Wheeler, then from Christopher Drake, a radio correspondent. "Naughty, naughty," Drake admonished her, clutching the document to his narrow chest. "Naughty, naughty, naughty." Half an hour later, Wheeler beamed his message to Europe: "Here is the script for today, complete with pauses for cheers and applause. The nomination...