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Three seniors--Bill Levine, Walter Reese and Harry Buell--anchor Bucknell's 3-4 defense. Levine, who blocked a punt and caused a safety in last week's game, has 20 tackles and leads the team in sacks (three). Nose Tackle Reese has recorded 25 tackles...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: The Scouting Report | 3/10/1987 | See Source »

Before the report was issued, nose counters projected an 11-to-4 Senate Intelligence Committee majority for recommending Gates' confirmation. Now the count is thought to be 8 to 7 -- and nobody is sure which side would wind up with the eight. The committee will question Gates again in closed session this week, but is likely to put off a vote, possibly until all congressional investigations of the Iran-contra affair are concluded. That would be a "solution" satisfactory to nobody; Gates would be running the CIA as acting director, probably for many months, but with a cloud hanging over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ronald Reagan: Can He Recover? | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...cheater. It seems Meissner's errant drives had a way of reappearing in-bounds. On those murky grounds, his first application to the P.G.A. was rejected. Here is the pertinent point: when he later faced the bar of justice, Meissner readily admitted poking his pistol in the nose of all those tellers, but he bitterly denied ever cheating at golf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Par Cut Off at the Knees | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...curtain parted to reveal a gleaming white jetliner. It was the A- 320, a 150-seat aircraft that is the new offering from Airbus, the European consortium. For a final touch of pizazz, Prince Charles and Princess Diana, on hand for the debut, sloshed champagne over the plane's nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIRPLANES: Royal Fete For a Eurojet | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

...announced any intention to become master of ceremonies of the comedy club of life that stand-up comics would start dishing out lines like, "Hey--you hear about Dukakis' economical version of a Star Wars defense shield? Yeah, in case of nuclear attack, we all just hide under his nose...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: Square Life: | 2/27/1987 | See Source »

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