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Some of the country's premier runners may compete on the track if Boston is selected as the site of the 1986 National Sports Festival. The United States Olympic Committee is considering 12 cities, and will make its decision later this year, a spokesman for the games said...
Both had done acting and playwriting before--Warner at Exeter and Rauch at Haddonsfield, New Jersey High School--and neither had thought seriously about directing, let alone directing as much as both of them eventually did. Four years and 40 shows later, they are Harvard's two premier directors and, except for Peter Sellars '80, probably the highest-profile student directors to pass through here in years...
...gunman's timing, however, was fortunately poor. Quebec Premier René Lévesque and his Cabinet were not due in the Salon Bleu until that afternoon. Some ministers were having a late breakfast, though, and they quickly barricaded themselves in the legislature's restaurant. But Assembly employees had no protection. "I'm sorry for wounding you," the assailant reportedly told a worker shot in the arm during the fracas, "but that's life...
...revive investment and encourage new, advanced industries, the government has been extolling free enterprise. Mitterrand himself has formally endorsed "the right to make a fortune." Captains of industry like Schlumberger's Jean Riboud are featured heroically on the covers of traditionally leftist magazines. As Sociologist Crozier notes, former Premier Raymond Barre "tried to teach respect for business, but no one listened. Now that the Socialists are doing the same thing, it is beginning to have an impact...
Since then 9,695 man-made objects have fallen from orbit, but the number that survived the atmospheric plunge to hit the earth is unknown. Shards have landed on more than a dozen nations, including Zambia, Finland and Nepal. As early as 1961, Premier Fidel Castro indignantly charged that a re-entering chunk of a U.S. spacecraft had struck and killed a Cuban cow. A year later, a 21-lb. metal cylinder landed at the intersection of North 8th and Park streets in Manitowoc, Wis. The debris was later identified by the U.S. Air Force as a fragment of Soviet...