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...Every time I looked up they were coming back down on us," said the hard-working Harvard goalie, Grant Blair, who took a break after two periods while Dickie McEvoy filled in for the hectic (27-shot) third period...
General Motors, in a particularly hectic week, became part of another Government action when the Environmental Protection Agency ordered it to recall 112,000 of its 1979 Chevrolet Chevettes for exceeding maximum federal standards for carbon-monoxide emissions GM said separately that it is calling back 367,700 vehicles, produced mainly during the 1983 model year, to correct defects involving brakes. In addition, a federal judge released confidential company documents reportedly indicating that GM knew that its 1980 X-model autos had brake problems before it started producing the cars. The material was assembled in connection with a Justice Department...
...picture forms showing 60 years of hectic freedom leading to powerlessness, ennui and immobility. Yet the picture is exaggerated. It is convenient to think of a time in the thrall of science as absent of religious faith, but one look at the millions of Poles, Guatemalans, Irishmen, Americans and Englishmen drawn to the recent visits of Pope John Paul II suggests that all the mysteries of existence do not bubble up only in laboratories. One reason the martial-law government of Poland so fears the Pope's influence in that country is that he reaches feelings in the people...
...battle was over-and to the curators went the spoils. The blue-and-white lectern emblem proclaiming NATIONAL WOMEN'S CONFERENCE 1977, which had hung for three hectic, fractious, exhilarating days in Houston, last week was headed for Washington's Smithsonian Institution. It will repose with such other memorabilia as the star-spangled banner that flew over Fort McHenry and Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. And well it might...
...office of Law School professor Arthur Miller looks crowded and seems hectic. As he signs a stack of letters behind a desk covered with files, his secretary tells him his vest is being tailored in New York for "Good Morning, America" and that Channel 5 wants to know what his segment for their newscast that night is about. One of two nearby assistants comments that this week's episode of the nationally syndicated "Miller's Court" looks especially good. Commenting on his contributions to several television programs, Miller says "I have to avoid being captured by the medium...