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...meeting by TIME'S Felix Rosenthal, a resident of Moscow and a Soviet citizen, who reports that the week had more stress and excitement than any other he has experienced since starting with Time Inc. in 1963. Said Rosenthal: "Representing an American organization puts me between the hammer and the sickle." As for Nelan, he was left with one lasting impression. Working out the protocol and the complications of the interview, he says diplomatically, "gave me new insights into the problems of finishing up the SALT treaty...
...Crimson could not ward off the pressing Eagle attack. At 19:12 of the third, Harvard freshman Mitch Olson fanned on a pass in the Crimson end, and B.C. Captain Joe Mullen fed Paul Hammer who beat Harvard netminder Wade Lau to send the game into...
...Orton confided to his diary in July 1967. Less than a month later Orton, who was only 34, was granted his wish. In a scene that could have occured in one of Orton's dark farces, the playwright's male lover smashed his head open with a hammer, then committed suicide with a lethal draft of grapefruit juice and Nembutals...
While the Russians in Afghanistan try to keep a low profile, Taraki's government has boldly waved the country's new red flag, which has a yellow star (symbolizing the Khalq Party) surrounded by some wheat instead of a hammer and sickle. After it unfurled this banner in October, the regime promptly 1) withdrew recognition from South Korea in favor of the Communist North, 2) described its accession to power as a "continuation" of the Russian Revolution, and 3) gratuitously parroted Brezhnev's charge of "imperialist" interference by the U.S. in Iran. But except for the ever...
...traveling Harvard man, wandering by a little apartment on Berlin's Thierschastrasse during the early 1930s might have heard a tune to warm his heart. Inside, in the apartment of Adolf Hitler, Ernst Hanfstaengl would sit at the piano and hammer out the melody of "Harvardiana." But the passer-by might wonder at the lyrics; To honor der Fuehrer, Hanfy had changed the words a bit. Instead of the traditional repeating "Harvard" chorus, Hanfstaengl would bellow out "Sieg Heil" again and again...