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...Harvard men's skiing team won the Colby-Sawyer Carnival in Putney, Vt. this weekend, and the women's squad grabbed second place for the teams' most satisfying showings of the season...
...Twilight Zone, by contrast, will offer mostly new segments (two to three per hour) based on stories by such writers as Stephen King, Ray Bradbury and Arthur C. Clarke; the directors include William Friedkin, Joe Dante (Gremlins) and Robert Downey (Putney Swope). The show has the difficult task of living up to Rod Serling's classic series, but the early signs are encouraging. A segment in the premiere show features Melinda Dillon as a harried housewife who has the power to make her noisy world stop dead in its tracks. The tone of antic irony, however, leaves the viewer unprepared...
David McCauley, a Quaker activist from Putney, Vt., organized the successful campaign in his state. "We needed ways for people to act locally," McCauley says. 'The town meeting format is just that...
...Newfane (pop. 1,129), 20 hilly miles from Putney in southern Vermont, the proceedings got under way promptly at 9 a.m. The local grange hall has a fitting Puritan homeliness, all hard-edged monotones except for the American flag near the dais. By 11:45 a.m. 17 of the 22 "articles" on the "warrant" had been discussed and voted on. Municipal officials won 500-an-hour raises. A local rescue squad was granted a $2,291 subsidy...
Irving has made numerous appearances recently, in print and on television, but yesterday marked his first public return to Cambridge, where he lives when he's not writing and wrestling in Putney, Vt. Irving first received widespread attention for his 1978 bestseller, "The World According to Garp...