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Last week we picked from the heart. Now, with Ivy oblivion the destiny of the Crimson '71, there's nothing left but trying to pick the winners...
...early for most of us to mourn the passing of our adolescence. We may have to be well past it before we can mourn. Maturity picks out in memory the high points of youth--and leaves the low points to oblivion or rueful laughter. But who can deny that adolescence can be a hell-in-the-mind...
...free vote on the EEC issue in Commons. Wilson is mindful of the tragic case of onetime Labor Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, who split the party in 1931 when he teamed up with the Tories in Britain's economic crisis. That action sent the Laborites into political oblivion for 14 years and ended his own career in ignominy...
...Mieczyslaw Moczar, 57, leader of the ultranationalist, anti-Semitic "Partisan" wing of the Polish Communist Party. Moczar, who lost his post as boss of the police and army, in the Central Committee's Secretariat, has been relegated to auditor of government spending, usually a stepping stone to political oblivion...
There are times when Cavett envisions taking over The Tonight Show if Johnny Carson should ever retire. Then there are occasions when Dick feels like buying a long-term Eurailpass to oblivion. Running his show, he says, "is really like an actor being in repertory but where in one day?one performance?you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy. It's a satisfaction in one way in that you get to use all the arrows in your quiver, or strings in your bow, or bats in your belfry. But it's also very...