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...must be taken seriously. Says a top presidential adviser: "The President is acutely conscious that there are plenty of uncertainties and even worries about him in Europe. I think he will impress them as a pragmatist, not a moralist, and as a guy who's got a firm grip on the problems." Fuel Sales. Carter arrives bolstered by firm public support at home. A New York Times/CBS News survey last week showed that he had a 64% favorable rating after announcing his energy program. That was a drop of eight points from a Gallup poll earlier in April...
Pong's importance in history has not diminished since that day. For instance, the inventor of the pen, an avid pong player who employed the pen-holder grip, named his new invention after this grip when he realized a pen is held just like a ping pong paddle. More recently ping pong diplomacy has opened the door to improved relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China...
...crucial importance is that no one on the team seems to have given up after the heartbreaking streak the squad has just come through. There's an important honor still up for grabs. A win Saturday would break UMass's three-year grip on the New England championship, a title Harvard would collect by taking its last three contests...
Yale's grip on the 18th century-or vice versa-has inspired two great publishing projects, on Boswell and WaLpole. The Boswell "factory," as it is sometimes called, is essentially manned by one scholar, retired English Professor Frederick Pottle, 79 (who has, however, a staff of four helpers). A stooped, sprightly man given to suspenders and tweed jackets, Pottle pursues his life's work in a dusty room in the main Sterling Library, cluttered with index cards, legal pads and old pharmacy lamps. He started in 1924 with a doctoral bibliography on Boswell, then went to do research...
...secretary-treasurer of the organization, who three years ago faced surgery to lock his right wrist in place. Undaunted, Campbell arrived at the hospital on the day of the operation carrying a tennis racquet. Instructing the surgeon to watch closely, he held the racquet in an Eastern forehand grip. "Lock the wrist just so," he ordered. Campbell's forehand, opponents complain, has never been more effective...