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Gathering questions at the outset from the 1,100 newsmen assembled in the Elysee Palace's elegant Salle des Fetes, he broke in when someone asked if it were true that he had said he wanted to see Britain "stripped naked" be fore allowing it to enter the Common Market (see box, opposite page). "I am going to answer you at once," he said slyly. "Nudity for a beautiful creature is natural enough, and for those around her is rather satisfying. But whatever attraction I feel for England, I never said that about her." Having got his guffaws...
Grabbing the lead from the outset, the Crimson five effectively throttled the high scoring combination of B.U.'s John Hassan and Dave Banovich and opened an 11 point lead at the half. Clutch steals by the agile Dover, who also contributed 18 points, and complete mastery of the boards by 6-8 George Yates ensured the victory...
More than Numbers. At the outset, the commission was faced with an apparent paradox. In proportion to population, the numbers of physicians, hospital beds and other health facilities are equal to or greater than they were 30 years ago; research has vastly expanded medical knowledge, and insurance and Government funds have "reduced financial barriers to care." Yet there is a "health crisis" in the country, marked by long delays in getting to see a doctor for routine care, hurried and sometimes impersonal attention, difficulty in getting care at night and on weekends, unavailability of beds in one hospital while beds...
Republican Candidate Arlen Specter, 37, district attorney and onetime liberal Democrat, ran a cautious campaign. Heeding Pollster E. John Bucci, who gave him a 2-to-1 edge at the outset of the campaign, he fought a defensive battle to keep Tate from eroding that margin. Specter, who is Jewish, refused to take a stand on a bill that would divert $26 million in state cigarette taxes to Catholic schools, and Tate-tirelessly proclaiming his card-carrying membership in the city's 400,000-strong Catholic voting bloc-blew sanctified smoke rings around...
...VIETNAM by Mary McCarthy (Harcourt, Brace & World, $5.95), is seen darkly through a bile-colored glass. The Viet Cong somehow do not make the scene; the G.I. is an unmitigated heavy. Novelist McCarthy confesses at the outset that her visit to the war last February for the New York Review of Books was to seek what was damaging to America. Written in corrosive prose, her book is a searing catalogue of squalor: rusting heaps of empty cans marking the progress of American divisions across the countryside, unwashed refugees and naive do-gooding Americans burbling enthusiastically of winning Vietnamese hearts...