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Most of the preliminaries to Super Bowl XXI were spent godding-up Elway; then Phil Simms of the New York Giants was the one who quarterbacked an impeccable game. "Last year was Alice in Wonderland," says Owner Pat Bowlen. This year the Broncos have a keener sense of purpose. Counting the days he played and assisted in Dallas, it will be the eleventh title game for Coach Dan Reeves, 45, who once tried to motivate the Broncos by stacking greenbacks on a table. This time he is exhibiting his championship rings...
...educational issues especially, Harvard has demonstrated keener awareness of its enormous social responsibilities President Bok's instincts that universities should stick to pontificating about educational issues are essentially right, and Harvard has spoken up on affirmative action in admissions: secrecy in research technology transfer, and financial aid In the area of financial aid, in particular. Harvard does not get enough credit for its extensive lobbying efforts to head off the worst of Reagan's budget cuts in 1981, cuts that would have harmed not Harvard students by and large, but lower and middle class students at other universities and colleges...
...affecting and indeed surprisingly beautiful scene, the man, in diapering his child, is reminded of a time when he nursed his dying, incontinent father. Evidently the resolution of the hero's romantic miseries has brought to Dixon's work not only joy, but insight into the keener shadings of grief. -By Patricia Blake
...think that we thought this would be an easy game," UMass Coach Polly Keener said after wards "We weren't ready for this. Harvard took advantage of everything...
...latest. They feared that a delay would simply not seem believable to the public. Reagan insisted on late January, figuring that the longer he could keep speculation alive, the more public interest he would build. Advisers now concede that the boss's political instincts, as usual, were keener than theirs: timing the announcement a few days after the State of the Union speech got the campaign started with the maximum splash...