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...tart, occasionally profane testimony on Capitol Hill, and critics argue that someone younger and less irascible should serve as the Navy's chief nuclear officer. He has had rancorous relations with General Dynamics' Electric Boat Division, the builder of the Tridents, charging the manufacturer with needless delays and outrageous cost overruns (now $420 million over the original estimate of $780 million in 1974). Says one Pentagon source: "He's gone through several Secretaries of the Navy and several Secretaries of Defense and has ignored most of them...
...loss to Penn would also, needless to say, turn the Crimson's slim Ivy title hopes into downright impossibility. As it is, Yale and Dartmouth each has to lose again, and then Harvard has to win--not tie--The Game in order to cop its first crown since 1975. No matter what Dartmouth or Harvard does this week, if Princeton doesn't beat Yale, The Game will not decide the title...
...small writing? Big things--violence, love, sex, alienation. Little things--fawns, pine trees, letters that arrive in the mail. The latter are the province of those who read Elements of Style, the former the stuff of most who ignore it. How can you talk baout nuclear war and omit needless words...
...Needless to say, Eliot dominated all aspects of the game. But Lowell's glaring weak point was its inability to provide any legitimate defense against Eliot's most potent weapon--the pass. St. Pierre threw the football wherever and whenever he wanted...
...then emotionally blackmails Bisset into bringing this litter-box lining to her prestigious publisher. Not merely a supportive friend, but a good neighbor; that's Merry Noel Blake. The film seems unaware of just how appalling Merry's behavior is; it certainly doesn't take it very seriously. Needless to say, Merry quickly joins the ranks of milionaire trash novelists like Jacqueline Sussann and Judith Krantz...