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...tournament marked the team's first major outing since the Crimson lost in the opening round of the NCAA Championships...
Installation in the Baseball Hall of Fame guarantees immortality, not maturity. Mickey Mantle could switch-hit with phenomenal power, round the bases in less than 13 seconds and outrun fly balls to deepest Yankee Stadium. He could also injure himself in battles with water coolers and golf clubs, and / get so hung over that his eyes "were like two holes in a snowbank." When Ted Williams tried to explain the science of hitting, says No. 7, "he got me crazy just thinking about it." Yet this incessant candor makes The Mick a winner. Ingenuously, Mantle speaks of growing...
President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado is scheduled to address the U.N. General Assembly this week. If he is able to keep the appointment, he will probably renew an appeal he made three weeks ago during his annual state-of- thenation speech, when he asked for a new round of negotiations to ease repayment conditions. He can only hope that lenders will listen--and respond favorably...
Reagan's remarks were intended by the White House to lower expectations about the forthcoming summit and the third round of nuclear-arms limitation talks, which began last week in Geneva. They were also aimed at sending a signal to the Soviets, who are waging a propaganda campaign to bring world pressure on the U.S. to abandon Star Wars...
Perhaps, but the hints are nonetheless alluring. During the second round of the Geneva talks last summer, Soviet Negotiator Victor Karpov informally suggested that Moscow might be willing to cut its arsenal of missiles and bombers by as much as 40%, including for the first time nuclear "charges," meaning warheads. In the past, the Soviets had agreed to limit only launchers, which allowed their missiles to be loaded up with multiple warheads. The Soviets also alluded to setting a ceiling on the number of land-based missiles. The U.S. considers these big "silo busters" to be the most destabilizing element...