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...Needless to say, old Erns (that's what they call him in Detroit) wasn't too happy just standing on the sidelines while his beloved Cubbies were going on to win all sorts of titles like the World Series and the Stanley Cup Face Off. So he told George Halas, the owner of the Cubs, that he was fed up with all that and wanted to do something more fun and useful...
...example was the needless confusion over whether or not Reagan should retain Bill Brock as chairman of the Republican National Committee. First he wanted to keep him on; then some aides said Brock had to go; finally Reagan kept him after all. The campaign in the states is off to an ominously slow start because of a lack of direction at headquarters. Last week aides somehow failed to pass along an invitation to Reagan to address the N.A.A.C.P. convention in Miami. Reagan does not often appear before black groups and may not have wanted to go to Miami anyway...
...against him. As if that were not enough, he must also suffer the punishing consequences of a series of failed escape attempts. The movie's dialogue consists largely of grunts and ughs, to which sensible viewers may want to add a kind of choral effect of their own. Needless to say, the picture ends in a bloodbath that might startle Sam Peckinpah...
...singly, much less in combination. The two-handed backhand seems part of the tennis landscape now that Jimmy Connors, Chris Evert and Tracy Austin have made it respectable. But when Borg first came to public notice, no one had used the shot since Australian Vivian McGrath in the 1930s. Needless to say, Borg's method was considered idiosyncratic, a stylistic dead end. For that matter, topspin was viewed as the last refuge of Bobby Riggs trying to win a bet. The patient base-line game has rarely been seen since Jean-RenéLacoste was outfoxing stronger foes in the 1920s...
...compelled to restrict students to a provision of one gallon of wine per man. Despite that one prohibitive graduation, the tradition of imbibement was propagated, climaxing in the "Plum cake scandal" of 1693, when kill-joy President Mather outlawed the tainted pastries, deeming the custom "dishonourable to the Colledge." Needless to say, in spite of various fines imposed by Mather, the tradition survives in one form or another...