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Reluctant nod from Capitol Hill...
...touchdowns. Even the Crimson's 52-37 stomping of Brown last week was accomplished mainly by the ground game. Priore, who has sat on the bench for much of the season and has completed only seven of 20 aerial attempts for 100 yards, will be given the starting nod for the second week...
...drumming session in the municipal-arts center of a Boston suburb, about 50 men sit in a huge circle beating on everything from tom-toms to cowbells and sticks. Their ages range from the 20s to the 60s. A participant has brought his young son with him. Drummers nod as newcomers appear, sit down and start pounding away. Before long, a strong primal beat emerges that somehow transcends the weirdness of it all. Some men close their eyes and play in a trance. Others rise and dance around the middle of the group, chanting as they move...
...this gruff, mumbling figure of authority and mystery? No one could be certain. The President himself confessed, "I didn't understand him at meetings . . . I'd just nod my head, but I didn't know what he was actually saying." Joseph Persico has better hearing than Ronald Reagan, and a keener eye for biographical detail...
...inside no outright cheers greeted Gorbachev's shape-up course. Legislators adopted the program by a vote of 333 to 12 (with 34 abstentions) but remained unsure as to exactly what the plan would accomplish. Still, the scheme's preamble sets a clear objective. While making a token half-nod to Marx -- "The transition to the market does not contradict the socialist choice of our people" -- it recites a litany of woes and concludes, "The whole world experience has proved the vitality and efficiency of the market economy...