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...breakfast one day that she wanted to be part of the Olympics. After Mrs. Nix persuaded AT&T to waive its requirement that runners be ten years old or older, she and her daughter set about raising the money. "We baked Easter cakes, Mother's Day cakes, pound cakes and sheet cakes," Nancy's mother recalls. Nancy made some of her own crafts and set about selling them to her neighbors. When her turn came, she took off so fast that she passed up the press truck and had to be called back. "I felt nervous," she said...
About 50 students, led by former Law Record Editor Louis J. Hoffman, staged a sit-in in Pound Hall, defying Vorenberg's demands that they disperse and forcing him to relocate a faculty meeting...
Baker had been consultant to the Merriam Webster dictionaries for drama terms. In mid-summer his copy of the great Second Edition arrived and he had the massive twenty-pound volume placed on a side-board in the dining room. Mr. and Mrs. Baker, three very bright teenage grandchildren and I ate our meals together Scarcely a meal passed but some unusual word would come up for discussion. Then I would go to the dictionary, read the relevant definition, and the etymology, and we would bandy the word about. That's how I learned the riches that he hidden...
Azelby, a 6-ft., 2 in., 235-pound inside linebacker, was drafted in the 10th round of the NFL's college draft May 1. He is the first Harvard gridder chosen in the NFL draft since quarterback Brian Buckley '81 went to the New England Patriots in the 12th round three years...
...response to all this from Washington has been low-key and reassuring. While the Soviets wring their hands, pound their fists and wag their fingers, officials of the Reagan Administration shake their heads wearily but indulgently. Soviet-American relations are not all that bad, they say. Nor, the Administration implies, should they be all that good. The two nations are, after all, fundamentally and irreconcilably at odds over how their own societies-and indeed the planet itself-should be run. Détente was, in that sense, unnatural...