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Saturday on Soldiers Field, the Crimson waited and waited, shot and shot, but despite several late rallies couldn't repeat last year's heroics. After 90 minutes of exhausting play, Harvard settled for a 0-0 tie with the Big Red in front of 100 spectators...
...kept very small. On the U.S. side, only Shultz, Poindexter and Regan are scheduled to sit at the table with the President. Reagan agreed to the meeting partly out of sheer self- confidence. His advisers believe he scored nothing short of a spectacular personal triumph at Geneva and can repeat it in Iceland. Politics entered into his motivation too. Regan judged that a successful presummit summit shortly before next month's congressional elections would allow Reagan to be perceived as a President who got superpower relations back on track, and thus boost his efforts to help Republican campaigners...
Aficionados may complain that not much is new in Nightingale. Like many people with long practice at being interviewed, Williams tended to repeat well-rehearsed witticisms. But the flavor is authentic, especially in such inverted cliches as "Symbols are just a way of saying something more directly" or "Miss Edwina (his mother) can best be described as a Prussian general -- an inefficient Prussian general." His phrase turning is ornamented $ with borrowings from other writers ("I like Dorothy Parker's line 'Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress' ") and fellow melancholics ("Tallulah said . . . 'If I had my life...
With fears of a repeat of the scene at Shea Stadium last week (when victory-crazed Mets fans caused $250,000damage to the field), the Fenway crowd remainedgenerally well-behaved. Only about a dozenspectators raced onto the field, and they were allquickly apprehended by the security force...
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, there are some existential tortures that I missed as a freshman: lottery hell, work-study hell, extracurricular hell. Next party you're at, pull some wise senior aside and get him or her to talk about it, if they dare. Otherwise, repeat your mantra, rub your lucky rabbit's foot, and keep a crucifix handy, and you probably will sail through freshman year unscathed. If not, don't say I didn't warn...