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...metronomic double time, back and forth, back and forth, inching toward the trout, which had broken water again just a few feet forward of the last rise. As Lempke cast, setting down the fly, an imitation of a green drake May fly, a couple of yards above the rise pattern, his words came drifting on the wind: "My wife never has to worry about me being out in a bar or chasing women, because I'm always out here chasing fish. But this green drake gets a lot of fellas in trouble. I've got laid off three...
...forthcoming compilation of examples of political harassment. There will be a rapid escalation of exposure of the Harvard Administration in the coming months. Only in this way--not by the old idealist arguments for free speech--will revolutionary and progressive groups be relieved of a pattern of political repression. Henry C. Park '84 RADACADS spokesperson
...inexhaustible talent for fomenting political instability. There were optimistic politicians, though, who saw grounds for hope in the electorate's demonstrated distaste in the June elections for the major parties' malgoverno (bad government). In their view, Craxi has an opportunity to bring a durable change to the pattern of Italian politics. Said Republican Party Whip Adolfo Battaglia: "With Craxi and a brand-new legislature there's a chance for a serious long-term political renewal...
...qualify as nasty or brutish, but often short: Walter Cronkite of CBS has been the only first-stringer at any network to hold the job to retirement age. Last week the industry shook its kaleidoscope once again. What seemed to be emerging, by week's end, was a pattern that American viewers have hardly ever seen: head-to-head, half-hour competition among solo anchors at all three commercial networks...
...shift in pattern was prompted by the death two weeks ago of ABC'S Washington-based anchor, Frank Reynolds. After he went on sick leave in April, ABC'S nightly news ratings dropped from second place to third, but the advantage went mostly to CBS. Those results convinced top officials at NBC that the pairing of the puckish Brokaw and dour Roger Mudd, 55, had little chance of catching on. A peripatetic workaholic, Brokaw has made mild fun of Mudd's reluctance to leave Washington in pursuit of story or spectacle. Though Brokaw continues to regard Mudd...