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...goal came at a lull in what was otherwise constant Crimson pressure. After a tentative start, Harvard kept most of the action in B.U.'s end. A mid-period Crimson power-play sputtered out, but the starting front line, centered by co-captain Firkins Reed, continued to press into the Terrier zone...
...riot death -David Moore, 22, run down by a police van during what was officially termed "mobile pursuit tactics"-could take the edge off the festivity. Australia's Nobel-prizewinning Novelist Patrick White suggested that the wedding was "a kind of rosy women's weekly romance to lull the more soft-centered among us and distract us from reality." There was, however, no sense that anyone wanted to forget the country's troubles. Said Donald Williams, 18, a skinhead who came to London from his native Portsmouth to celebrate the nuptials: "I was standing next...
...logic devastating and his humor irrefutable. But for every slain theory, ten new ones seemed to grow, and today a burgeoning interest in the paranormal has provided new targets for the patented Gardner weapons of ridicule and reason. Science: Good, Bad and Bogus discusses the fresh fascination with Roman Lull, a 13th century Spanish theologian who devised a roulette-like numerical system for revealing the secrets of the universe. Seven centuries later, Gardner reports, victims are still playing numbers games-with results that only benefit the charlatans who run them. Other chapters examine UFOs, especially the Hollywood variety, take...
After a two-month lull in the anti-guerrilla war, the operation clearly demonstrated the government's new military power. But in San Salvador, the moderate junta, led by President José Napoleón Duarte, was having new and serious problems. Right-wing businessmen, long attacked by Duarte as the greatest threat to the junta, were grasping for a share of power in the beleaguered country. Said the President: "The private sector is in its final offensive...
After Du Pont's new offer, an uneasy and temporary lull settled over the competition. Explained a top financial adviser to Seagram's Bronfman: "We're just going to sit back for a while and see what happens." But then, after three days of waiting, Mobil moved. It offered $7.7 billion, or $90 per share. The other bidders immediately returned to their calculators to plot their next ploys...