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Last week No. 10 Downing Street belatedly released Wilson's nominees. As it turned out, Goldsmith would not be awarded a peerage after all, but rather the lesser rank of knighthood, a more appropriate distinction for a businessman of Goldsmith's stature. British editorial writers and commentators gave Wilson's list of 42 nominees high marks for its surprise value and about a C-minus for taste and distinction. Among the recipients...
...championship game, it certainly had to rank with the now almost mythic clashes between arch-rivals Maryland and John Hopkins. In recent years, however, Hopkins has more often than not folded against Maryland--a fate Cornell resisted. In the overtime Saturday, Maryland's Terry Kimball scored in the first 34 seconds, but instead of playing scared, the Big Red went on to score four unanswered goals and win the national championship...
Cabrera attacks the Cuban revolution simply by describing selected scenes. He tells of a waiter turned terrorist who becomes a police interrogator, lives in a confiscated mansion, and wins the rank of commander. He recalls some comic and heroic escapes, such as the two men who stowed away in the landing gear of a plane flying to Spain; one of them fell out during the journey but the other arrived eight hours later, half-frozen. The charge that the book spins is guilt by association: the Cuban Revolution was conceived in this tradition of violence and it is essentially...
...penny. It was the most dramatic setback to date for the nation's powerful municipal unions, which have been demanding ever fatter wage boosts and thus helping to drive U.S. cities to the edge of bankruptcy. It was the citizenry that finally rebelled against the well-paid rank and file (street sweepers are currently making as much...
...night that Carter had been narrowly upset by Idaho Senator Frank Church in the Nebraska primary. Even with that setback Carter has won twelve of 17 primaries, drawn more than 4 million votes and locked well over 600 delegates (needed to nominate: 1,505). A recent Gallup poll showed rank-and-file Democrats prefer him to Humphrey by 39-30%; the remaining 27% favor other candidates. Democratic projections of where Carter will stand after the last primaries on June 8 give him from 1,000 to 1,300 delegates, v. fewer than 300 for any of his opponents. Says...