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Penn head coach Jerry Berndt rode the arm of Gary Vura and the hands of Karl Hall to a 29-22 victory over Cornell in his debut as Quaker coach...
...West Berlin three East German refugees held a hunger strike, and protesters built a replica of the Wall to block the office of Aeroflot, the Soviet airline. Only a few miles away, in the eastern sector, buildings were adorned with red flags as troops paraded down Karl-Marx-Allee to honor what they proudly call "the antifascist protection wall...
...DIED. Karl Böhm, 86, august Austrian conductor celebrated for his lucid, authoritative interpretations, especially of Mozart, Wagner and his friend Richard Strauss; of a stroke; in Salzburg, Austria. Despite the international scope of his appearances and recordings, Bohm remained most closely associated with three great native institutions: the Vienna State Opera (at which he served two stints as director), the Salzburg Music Festival and the Vienna Philharmonic. A stickler for detail who shunned showmanship for clarity and fidelity to the score, he once said: "I bring to conducting my own enthusiasm for the music-and then there...
Most writers sail the oceans of their imaginations. Joseph Conrad navigated real oceans and lived a life full of adventure, conflict and drama. Perhaps that is the reason why his characters continue to haunt contemporary fiction and film, and scholars keep expanding the Conrad industry. Frederick Karl's monumental but plodding 1979 biography now holds the record for sheer size at 1,008 pages. A new book by the novelist's son John, Joseph Conrad: Times Remembered (Cambridge University Press), offers filial recollections and depicts the writer as a martinet, trying mightily to overcome his natural reserve, able...
...fourth of the Los Padres campers are familiar with computers before they arrive (some bring their own home computers with them); for most, though, the two-week immersion is their first close encounter with the machines. "We've got a computer at my school," explains red-haired Karl Kuellmer, 14, of Mountain Ranch, Calif, "but no one knows how to use it." Founder Bollay sees his camp as a response to what he terms the "agonizingly slow pace" of school instruction in the subject. "In the future," he says, "those who are not computer-literate will...