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Crossing the Yard the other day, I stooped to pick up one or two of the tin cans and papers that lay in the path I was following. As I straightened up and went on my way, I overheard a little knot of French visitors who had been watching me with amazement. They stared for a minute at me and then at the rectangles of ragged grass, with their uprooted palins and their usual scatteration of papers, bottles, and plastic wrappers smeared with remnants of junk food "Tiens!" exclaimed one of the women. "It's democracy in action. The Americans...
...always been the object of debate and doubt. Their range would not permit them to reach Moscow, and the targets that they could hit in the western regions of the U.S.S.R. were also covered by American intercontinental and submarine-based missiles. Nitze was convinced that cutting the Gordian knot," as he put it last week, and reaching an agreement that both reduced the SS-20s and allowed the U.S. to introduce cruise missiles was well worth the sacrifice of the Pershing IIs. However, Perle, who was once Nitze's protégé and ally, vehemently opposed the plan. At Perle...
...stellar Dixon, and robin missed only three of his 15 attempts en route to a game-high 26 points. The most important of all robin's baskets came with just 20 seconds left in regulation, when the 6 ft., 3-in senior sank a 20-footer to knot the contest...
...their first goal at the 6.03 point of the first as Dinny Start took the puck from team mates Genie Simmons and Amy Spalding and put it into the Cornell twines. And a minute into the second period, Diane Hurley rocketed the puck past Cornell goalie Diane Greaser to knot the score...
...cagers mounted a 21-8 surge to knot the score, but the comeback left the Crimson lifeless and Navy used the half's final four and minutes to claim a 37-26 margin at the intermission...