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...freshman hockey team coasted to an 8-4 victory over the Brown J.V. squad Saturday after a bumpy start. The Achilles heel of the early part of the season--the defense--was the key to the Crimson's success...
...flight was fairly routine until we reached supersonic speed. It then became a new and exhilarating sensation-like having the carpet of the world map magically moved away from you. Just 20 min. after Venice, the heel of the Italian boot had been reached. Moments later, Greece flashed by on the left, and soon Crete and Cyprus were behind us, too. The yellow-brown dusk of the desert began to descend as Captain Norman Todd of British Airways throttled back and glided toward Bahrain, a 231-sq.-mi. island of oil rigs, a refinery and an aluminum smelter...
CHAPPAQUIDDICK REMAINS Edward M. Kennedy's political and moral Achilles' Heel to this day, seven years after his car accident first made headlines. The ugly and persistent questions surrounding The Chappaquiddick Incident (it is invariably capitalized) surface every time the Senator from Massachusetts is considered as a presidential possibility. His actions on the night of July 18, 1969, have never been coherently explained; and his involvement in the accidental death of a young, attractive campaign worker has immeasurably damaged his reputation--personally and politically. Kennedy made tortured and wrong decisions in those early morning hours, decisions that have haunted...
...right of newspapers to report parliamentary debate without restriction, a privilege they had enjoyed for 19 years. The result was a rash of mildly sarcastic cartoons. After the Chandigarh announcement last week, the Indian Express (whose once virulent criticism of the government has now been effectively brought to heel) came out with one showing two elders holding up a New Year's banner. The message: RING OUT THE OLD, RING...
...because of the sort of people who vote in presidential primaries. Reagan, Will says, "is more fun, and basically politics at the nominating level is dominated by comfortable, middle-class, leisured people. They do it for fun, not because they're being ground into the dust by the iron heel of tyranny." Asked his own preference between Ford and Reagan, Will pauses as if he had never considered the question before. "I don't know," he finally replies. "I'm not that interested. I suppose one of these days I'm going to have to get serious about this...