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...most of the good signs were in the running events. Junior John Perkins and sophomore Paul Kent went one-two for Harvard in the opening race, the 1500 meters. Paul McNulty almost held third for a Crimson sweep, but Army's Phil Williams edged him out at the line. Thirty-one hundredths of a second separated the top three finishers...
...MARRAKESH ONE-TWO by Richard Grenier Houghton Mifflin; 346 pages...
...insurgents' assault intensified dramatically in January with a media one-two punch. First came a piece in Reader's Digest (circ. 17.9 million), then a broadside from the top-rated CBS-TV show 60 Minutes (audience: 22.9 million households). In a scene that Protestant leaders were to denounce as unrepresentative, cameras panned a Methodist church in Logansport, Ind., and Correspondent Morley Safer intoned that members had discovered that some collection-plate money was being spent "on causes that seem closer to the Soviet-Cuban view of the world than Logansport...
...Environmental Protection Agency. Presidential Advisers James Baker and Craig Fuller were quoted as saying at midweek that, despite President Reagan's public expressions of confidence in beleaguered EPA Administrator Anne Burford, firing her had indeed become an option. The Administration had counted on its showy, if belated, one-two punch-buying out dioxin-tainted Times Beach, Mo., and bolstering Burford with five seasoned deputies-to cool the controversy that has paralyzed the agency. But it soon became apparent that the EPA tar baby was not so easily unstuck...
Freshman Jernigan and sophomore Boyum matched up in the finals of the A division just as they had two weeks ago, when Jernigan topped Boyum, 3-0, to become the National champion. This time, the duo--known to opponents as the best one-two combination in squash, went to four games, as Jernigan took the first, 18-16, Boyum won the second, 16-18, and Jernigan swept the last two...