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...understandable and helps the reader along. But when he talks about SNLVs (Strategic Nuclear Launch Vehicles), CBMs (Confidence Building Measures) and FRODs (Functionally Related Observable Differences), he sounds like just another professional bureaucrat. In his efforts to give us the inside story--replete with the lingo and a play-by-play of the seemingly endless rounds of negotiations--Talbott obscures his major themes...
...following are the answers to Michelle D. Healy's baseball quiz that appeared in Monday's Crimson. If you answered between 100 and 108 questions correctly, you have wasted your life; 80-100, quit school and do play-by-play; 60-80, do stats for the Red Sox; 40-60, write for Sport magazine; below 40, a gerbil...
...Hamilton Holton "Holty" Wood, who was captain of the J.V. football team in 1939. Wood's maternal grandfather was one of the thirteen men who got together and donated the Yale Bowl. Wood's brother operated the Stadium's scoreboard and his daughter Ceelie Wood now types out the play-by-play charts for members of the press...
...technical innovation in the Harvard pressbox which makes Cavileer beam with pride is the two-colored play-by-play sheets produce right after each quarter. Cavileer and Wood had to go down to the A.B. Dick Company headquarters to consult on a way of producing two colors on one carbon. "It was a great undertaking," Cavileer recalls solemnly, "No other school does it. Princeton tried to do it a couple of years ago and failed. The difference is in having people who are really interested in their work...
...ball is fired into the Princeton end and Harvard changes on the fly..." You could almost imagine such a play-by-play account of the soccer team's efforts Saturday at Princeton's Poe field as Crimson coach George Ford went to a platoon system to ignite his beleaguered forward line...