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...NUMBERS game will start up again in earnest when American and Soviet negotiators sit down in Geneva next week to talk missiles. Our side will point to the overhead scoreboard and insist that we cannot help deploving more intermediate-range weapons unless the Soviets cut back. Team Moscow will haul out the old launchers-versus-warheads stall offense, arguing that parity already exists and that Washington is the culprit behind continuing NATO-Warsaw Pact tension. Grandstand experts will keep track of SS-20s and Pershing 2s: Time magazine will run charts showing cartoon missilemen arm wrestling or playing hop-scotch...
...automatic four or five yards a carry. He may not be the fastest guy on the team (definitely not), but he is Harvard's most impressive straight-ahead runner in recent history. He has lost the easy-to-injure tag and proved remarkably resilient over this season's long haul, and now needs only 230 yards over the next three games to break Harvard's single-season rushing mark, which now stands...
...robbers changed conveyances at a nearby shopping center and a few minutes later ran smack into a police roadblock. Two Nyack police officers who had stopped the lead vehicle, an orange U-Haul van, were shot dead by figures who leaped from the back of the van. Several of the suspects jumped into a second getaway car, a tan Honda. After it crashed three miles away, four people were arrested and all of the $1.6 million was recovered. A third car, a white Oldsmobile, sped away and was later found abandoned. Authorities began searching with bloodhounds and helicopters...
...other hand, China's difficulties are a good reason to stop worrying about where the money will come from, and start investing in the wealth-producing plants and factories that are needed for any country to be truly self-reliant over the long haul. China's renewed, albeit cautious, interest in industrial development seems to indicate that the message is once again beginning to be appreciated by Peking's economic planners...
...Schickel's review of Mommie Dearest [Sept. 21] stands as tragic testimony to one of the most serious obstacles to recognizing the extent of child abuse in our country, namely, that it's really no big deal for parents to haul off at their children now and then...