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...Tony Award front runner for best revival and best set -- a category rarely won by a straight play -- is the London import An Inspector Calls, a drawing- room melodrama exploded into a streetscape of urban despair. The opening scenes are daringly played inside an enclosed mini-mansion that gradually opens and finally topples, a metaphor for the collapse of capitalism. Brilliant as the effect is, one wonders whether the creators realize what economic system actually did fall apart in recent years...
...Friday morning arrived with no clear front runner, a mood of frustration set in at the White House. One official called the previous 72 hours "three days of torture." Finally, after deciding that the questions hanging over Arnold's health were serious enough to disqualify him, Clinton was ready at last to give Breyer his O.K. He called the judge, their first contact since their uncomfortable meeting last year, then got on the phone to the two losing candidates. Babbitt was able soon after to joke with friends about his experience. "I knew I had been cut," he told them...
JACK KEMP. The former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Bush has lined up top fund raisers and will relocate his political-action committee from Washington to strategically important California this week. He becomes the instant front runner if he jumps in, but campaign veterans are worried that he lacks the discipline to hold the pole position for long...
...Crimson. Harvard is 0-15 when it commits more errors than its opponents, but it is 11-2-1 when its defense is equal to or better than the opposition...Harvard is 8-4 when it scores first, but only 3-13-1 when the opposition plates a runner first...Speed on the basepaths has certainly been lacking for Harvard. It has stolen only eight bases in 16 Ivy League games and 21 overall. The Crimson has only one steal in its last six games, and Harvard has failed to record a stolen base in 17 of its 29 games...
Harvard allowed one run in the bottom of the fifth. Then neither team plated a runner again until Hartford scored on a heartbreaker in the bottom of the twelfth...