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Morris E. Mentum does not play for the Harvard hockey team; he doesn't even attend school in Cambridge. But Saturday afternoon he, like Bob Gamere, a Teleseven camera crew and a packed crowd obviously in search of some excitement and already bored stiff by reading period, was in Watson Rink as the Crimson skaters made off with a big one, 4-3, against a good but not great Brown outfit...
These two one-acters are hilariously extended anecdotes in the U.S. tradition of the tall story. Making his playwriting debut at Manhattan's American Place Theater, Reynolds, 33, does not shape his plays with sufficient skill, but he does give them a wickedly comic mo mentum like an accomplished barstool raconteur...
Approval of this program as the party's policy was by simple and enthusiastic voice vote. Harmony was not so easily attained in the matter of adopting the party charter for 1980 and be yond. As the convention gathered mo mentum and delegates of like mind began to caucus, Strauss started worrying that the compromises that he had so laboriously and skillfully put together for the party charter would come apart at the last moment. The most ex plosive issue in what Strauss called "a political minefield" was how explicitly the party charter should guarantee the representation and vote...
...Balance of Power: The Pres ident believes that Communist mo mentum, which picked up after Sputnik 1, has slackened. The balance of power is with the free world, but there remain many problems. The rich nations get richer and the poor nations get poorer, and Kennedy finds incomprehensible the attacks on U.S. foreign aid programs aimed at helping underdeveloped nations...