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...there was an opportunity to take the Soviets up on some of their offers. Weinberger retreated from his substantive attacks, instead questioning the timing. Shortly thereafter, Weinberger and Perle went off to Brussels for a NATO meeting. There the Secretary presented a tough and well-documented lecture, using a pointer and photographs, about alleged Soviet violations of existing arms-control agreements. He received qualified support for the American claims from the U.S. allies and helped negotiate an agreement between the U.S. and Britain on joint participation...
...NOTEBOOK'S NOTEBOOK: Harvard will play on artificial turf Saturday for the only time this year...Harvard has not scored first in any game this year...The Crimson's two-pt. conversion Saturday was its first two-pointer in exactly one year...Harvard has converted one-third (16 of 48) of its third downs attempts...Senior Chuck Shirey needs three punt returns to set a school record...No Harvard wide receiver currently on the squad has ever caught a pass in a varsity game...A Harvard wide receiver hasn't caught a touchdown pass in more than three years...This...
FOOTNOTE: *Each unit on the Richter scale indicates about a 30-fold jump in energy released. A quake of magnitude 2 is hardly perceptible; a 5-pointer can shatter dishes and windows; the great San Francisco quake of 1906 is estimated to have been an 8.3; and the most powerful quake ever recorded, off the Chilean coast in May 1960, reached...
...different from the Harvard of today as the outside world then was from that of today. At Harvard we learned the history of Western Europe from Frisky Merriman, always impeccably dressed with a carnation in his button-hole and a billiard cue in his hand serving as a pointer. We learned about paintings from George Edgell of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and we produced foul-smelling compounds in the Mallinckrodt Laboratory. In fact, we learned a great many things from many professors but possibly more from our friends and classmates...
Lewis will stay on as General Dynamics chairman until perhaps the end of the year to ensure a smooth management transition. His successor will not come from within the company, but is an outsider, Stanley C. Pace, 63, a West Pointer and currently vice chairman of TRW, a high-tech conglomerate based in Cleveland. Pace had been thinking of retirement, but decided instead to take on the tough General Dynamics assignment. Why stay in the fray? "That's a good question," Pace said at a news conference. "My wife asked me that." Lewis approached Pace to be his successor...