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With Yale in the lead by a length down the final stretch, Eli cox Guy Gregoire failed to see a navigational buoy, which quickly chewed up the oar of number seven man Al Lawn. While Lawn was jumping overboard with the useless oar, Yale quickly lost its comfortable margin (and would have been disqualified by Lawn's swim anyway) to the surging Crimson...
Named commander of the Second Fleet in the Atlantic in 1974, Turner resorted again to unconventional tactics. He checked on the readiness of his ships by making surprise visits by helicopter. Then he would toss a life preserver into the ocean and order sailors to save a hypothetical man overboard. His ambition was to become Chief of Naval Operations, but his plans were interrupted last March by his Commander in Chief. Since Turner remains in the Navy, he is accused by critics in the CIA of using the intelligence post as a steppingstone to the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
Like its hero, The Honourable Schoolboy is all too obviously imperfect. In his effort to detail the slow, agonizing life of the aging spy, le Carre has gone overboard, producing a novel of epic proportions that conveys a theme of only moderate importance. What begins as a portrait of tired, dirty, washed-out and disillusioning reality becomes a frequently tedious chronicle of flatulent, hemmorhoidal and unnecessarily repulsive dreariness. The author uses a bludgeon when a tap on the shoulder would suffice--and heavy-handedness goes beyond his unsubtle attempts to expose the spy game. Le Carre's blatant symbolism...
...more, he put on scuba gear and spent four hours under water one Sunday, searching the Merced River near Mariposa with his dredge. On the family's pontoon raft, his wife Joanne painstakingly watched the discharge for the sight of gold. Suddenly she squealed with joy and tumbled overboard in her excitement, but not before she had grabbed an ounce of gold in her fist. His bloodshot eyes glistening, Manion later reckoned that the day's haul, which included a few more nuggets, was worth about $200. Good, but not good enough. Said he: "I'm still...
This psychological approach drew some critical fire as the five volumes on James appeared, but it fascinates his Dartmouth students. "I don't go overboard about biography, so to speak, but I think Edel's psychological method offers interesting insights," says Senior Peter Tagge. An ardent sailor, Tagge is writing for his course project a profile of round-the-world Sailor Robin Knox-Johnston. Diane Kilpatrick, a psychologist at Dartmouth's student health center, was also drawn by Edel's analytic method. When Edel proved at the first session to be "a fascinating storyteller," she juggled...