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...with its famous no-backfield set, that is the sound emanating from the bleachers. The Multiflex, alas, is more pretty than successful. Though Restic is regularly mentioned for big-time college and professional jobs, his reputation is better than his team's records. Harvard has only won the league outright once under Restic (1975), and his cumulative record...
...Lady Diana's youthful radiance stole the show last week at the Queen's garden party. Allowing an elderly blind guest to feel her engagement ring, she joked: "I'd better not lose this before Wednesday or they won't know who I am." Her outright sensual allure has smartened up her fiance considerably...
...government, Georgakas writes, is guilty of outright lying about the hazards of living near nuclear plants, and of callous insensitivity to government employees whose health was irreparably damaged by exposure to nuclear wastes, among them the army units dispatched during the 1950's into radioactive zones in a bravura effort by the U.S. to demonstrate safety. "Cancer rates among the exposed men have been far above the statistical norm, yet the afflicted soldiers have found it impossible to obtain government compensation. The same situation is likely to hold true for the eventual victims of the Three Mile Island incident...
...after Administration supporters won a procedural fight, they produced in a pell-mell rush a substitute for a bill that had made less draconian reductions in social programs than Reagan wanted. Their hastily drafted proposals, which few Congressmen read, were filled with strikeovers, indecipherable hand-scrawled passages and some outright errors. Said a frustrated House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill: "Nobody knows what's in their bill...
THAT THE SOCIALIST wave reached its peak in France on June 21, 1981 is a view not likely to be contested by the history books. By taking 289 of a possible 491 seats in Parliament, the Socialist Party can now boast outright possession of the legislative in addition to its recent acquisition of the executive branch of the government. A half-century battle by the oft-divided Left has finally, and convincingly, been won. For members of the new opposition, it is time for soul-searching and question-answering...