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...with trying to guess what is going to happen next. This occupational tic, this desire to sound "knowing" about the not yet knowable, is what makes so much journalism quickly forgettable. The urge is highly visible during the Reagan interregnum, with Washington reporters and columnists desperately inflating every little nod about future policies, or hint about appointments, from the Reagan camp...
...offense, the Multiflexing pride and joy of coach Joe Restic? As always with Restic teams, the basic question comes down to the man calling the signals--as the quarterback goes, so goes Harvard football. After a heated struggle in pre-season camp, Restic awarded Brian Buckley the starting nod the day before the opener with Columbia...
...represents unattainable class: Lana Turner, in The Postman Always Rings Twice, to his John Garfield. Vickie is the silently smoldering platinum blond in a Bronxful of greasy brawlers and dark-haired tarts. He sees her gliding in slow motion through his jerky life, smiling mysteriously, bestowing a Queen Mother nod on some old friend. But what old friend? Why did she smile at him? Can it be she's fooling around with one of them Mafia bums? Or even with Joey? She can be. She must be. His Desdemona must be punished, like a pretty but punch-less fighter...
...when Buckley returned this fall, his original class having already graduated, the quarterback job was no longer his for the asking. So he dueled junior Mike Buchanan and sophomore Ron Cuccia for the job this summer and got Joe Restic's nod for the Columbia game...
Magnuson, 75, chairs the powerful Appropriations Committee, which heavily influences how the Government will spend its half-trillion dollars a year. He is also the ranking Democrat on the Budget and Commerce committees. In effect, he only needs to nod to have federal money steered toward his constituents. Boasts he: "Washington gets more federal money per capita [$1,850] than any state in the union." Everywhere there are signs of "Maggie's" vast power: $951 million of relief for the victims of Mount St. Helens' eruptions, $5.7 billion in hydroelectric projects on the Columbia River, including...