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Thatcher's announcement last week of new elections caught even some of her closest aides by surprise. But once she had made the decision, she wasted not a moment. By breakfast time Monday, she had informed her Cabinet. Shortly after noon, she drove to Buckingham Palace to tell Queen Elizabeth II. Within the hour, the news was out: the Prime Minister had called general elections for June 9, nearly a year before her five-year term...
...finish fourth among the larger boats. Jeantot's eleven-ton 56-footer even shaved ten days off the previous single-handed circumnavigation record, set in a trimaran by fellow Frenchman Alain Colas in 1973-74. Jeantot's large monohull also set new race records for the fastest noon-to-noon run (240 miles) and seven-day run (1,552 miles). In France, an instant national hero was born. Jeantot, Superstar; Jeantot, King of the Sea; Jean-tot, the Absolute Conqueror, toasted the French press, which sent 52 representatives to cover his victorious arrival in Newport...
...hosts the 11-4-1 Midshipmen tomorrow at noon, and if Cornell wins either game, then Harvard takes the league crown. Otherwise, the Crimson boards US Air flight 301 for Ithaca, N.Y. tomorrow evening...
...hour approaches midnight on the campus of Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, but in Wean Hall, C.M.U.'s computer center, it might as well be high noon. On the fifth floor, two dozen undergraduates pound computer terminal keyboards, complete class assignments or work on research projects. In a glass-walled room two floors below, 20 students are seated at terminals. Down the hall from them, in a large room known as the SPICE rack (for a project called the Scientific Personal Interactive Computing Environment), several young men and women tap away on Wean Hall's most sophisticated machines...
MEDFORD--More than 200 Tufts undergraduates yesterday continued their occupation of the university's main administration building, which they entered noon Wednesday to protest President Jean Mayer's decision to deny tenure to a popular junior faculty member. The number of protesters in and outside the building swelled to more than 500 during the day. Student representatives said yesterday evening that they would stay a second night, and until Mayer reversed his decision...