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...effort standing on his own 6-yd. line, his team ahead, 7-0, with 9:06 remaining in the second quarter. He called the signals, then watched Mike Jacobs's snap from center sail widly over his right hand. Flach scampered after it helplessly, but the Crusader's Bob Ireland had fallen on the ball at the Harvard 2-yd. line...
...largely historical. Europeans, intoxicated with the cult of the Noble Savage, got interested in Hawaii through the Pacific explorers of the 18th century. Large quantities of porta ble Hawaiian artifacts went back on the boats to Europe, where they remain in the British Museum and other collections from Ireland to Germany. European collectors also gathered most of the paintings and drawings of real historical significance that whites made of Hawaii. (How much clearer our sense of English cultural attitudes to the Hawaiians would be, for instance, if the show had borrowed Johann Zoffany's ambitious Death of Cook from...
...home to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in a boycott promulgated by Washington. Sixteen other nations registered their disapproval by displaying the Olympic flag rather than their national colors during the opening ceremonies, which were presided over by Communist Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev and Lord Killanin of Ireland, who retires after the games as president of the International Olympic Committee...
...I.O.C. also voted last week to install Spain's Juan Antonio Samaranch as its president when the eight-year term of Ireland's beleaguered Lord Killanin is extinguished along with the Moscow flame on Aug. 3. A former boxer who now prefers to swing at golf balls, Samaranch, 60, will resign this fall as his country's Ambassador to the Soviet Union to devote full time to the nonpaying position. Like most of his I.O.C. colleagues, the diplomat takes a dun view of the American-led boycott, but insists that he is "totally committed" to having...
...socialist Fabian Society, wrote a pamphlet that inspired Sir Geoffrey Howe, the Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, to urge that it be tried. Despite strong opposition from the Labor Party, the Conservative government in April provided about $70 million for six enterprise districts in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland...