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...telephoned that evening by one of my political friends, then the second secretary of the district Helmut Hackenberg, who was in charge of the action. He informed me that several local personalities, including three secretaries of the party, had joined Gewandhaus Orchestra director Kurt Masur in a public appeal against the use of violence. Although I was not empowered to do so by the office I held at the time, I told my political friends that their appeal was correct, and I encouraged them to act in such a way that everything would end without the use of force...
Well, maybe. Seeded fourth last week, he produced uncertain ground strokes and he appeared rusty. Even as his playing improved as he advanced to the semifinals by defeating Peter Fleming and Wally Masur, he disputed line calls and spit in the direction of the judge. Nonetheless he fell to a fiercely determined Boris Becker in a tough match that was settled by a 10-8 tiebreaker. It is a measure of McEnroe's enduring popularity, however, that 100 reporters and 40 photographers showed up to cover the Volvo, traditionally a sleepy tournament that attracts little attention. Win or lose, polite...
...husband, Paul LeMat reveals the flip side of the character he played in the 1980 movie Melvin and Howard. The lovable lout has turned into a dangerous brute; LeMat's subtle achievement is to s show that both are one. The rest of the cast, especially Richard Masur as Francine's bland, earnest, ultimately heroic attorney, is uniformly excellent...
Severe immunological vulnerability poses some tricky medical problems. "Specific infections can be treated," says Internist Henry Masur of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, "but the person will usually just come down with another infection two months later." Masur has seen homosexual patients be sieged by bacteria, fungi and offbeat viruses, all in quick succession. "Why this group has something suddenly wrong with its immunity is a mystery...
Eric Miller '79, Janet Masur '78 and Cheryl Claassen, a third-year graduate student, who submitted the slogan jointly, will receive a $100 prize. The judges also awarded five runner-up prizes...