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After two William and Mary possessions failed to mount a threat, the Crimson offense took over again at the Harvard 40 with 41 seconds to go in the first half. Buckley proceeded to direct one of the gridders' more impressive drives of the season, taking the Crimson 61 yards in five plays and 30 seconds...
...first time since September, a New York Daily News straw poll released Thursday shows D'Amato with a seven-point lead over Holtzman. Little more than a week before, a Times-CBS News poll had given Holtzman a ten-point edge. With D'Amato gaining rapidly, pressures should mount for a Javits withdrawal; some analysts believe that most of the estimated 23 per cent of the electorate that favors Javits will vote for Holtzman. Javits acknowledges that his long-shot struggle to recover from defeat in the Republican primary is losing momentum; polls indicate that only half of the voters...
...Environment. Reagan made novel statements about what most threatens clean air; he has cited both trees and Mount St. Helens as wreaking more havoc than auto exhausts, leading to a joke in the Reagan press corps about "the attack of the killer trees." Such nonsense has reduced his credibility in this field. Still, as Governor, he earned respect in California by upholding rigid water-pollution and smog-control laws and by protecting an additional 145,000 acres of park lands from private commercial use. In any clash between energy development and the environment, however, Reagan would be expected to give...
...Covenant organizers have erred in limiting the concept to the city of Boston, but said they have done little to implement their ideals even within the city during another year marked by racial violence. "The general notion fizzled out," he said. "They didn't do anything this summer except mount that ad campaign"--a series of print, radio, and television appeals emphasizing "colorblindness," courtesy of the prestigious Boston advertising firm Hill, Holladay, Connors, and Cosmopoulos...
...brothers. By then, with water in short supply, sanitation hazards were increasing, and Algerian officials had begun worrying not only about epidemics but about civil disorder. One convoy was raided by villagers, angry that truckloads of food and medicine were constantly passing them by. Armed soldiers were forced to mount patrols to guard against mass looting of tottering buildings...