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...RUSS MONITOR U.S. PHONES, blared the Chicago Tribune last week, head lining its scoop that the Soviet Union has been listening in on domestic telephone conversations, no doubt including those of Government, business and military leaders. Up to 70% of U.S. phone calls are carried by microwave, and the Soviets have set up parabolic receivers on their Molynia communications satellites in the skies over the U.S. and on the ground to intercept and record the microwave transmissions. All this should come as little sur prise, since the U.S. and U.S.S.R. have engaged in such mutual electronic spookery for years...
David and Goliath cliches aside. Harvard will be facing a rather formidable size disadvantage this evening. Minnesota boasts at least four players who are over six feet and 200 pounds, one of whom, Russ Anderson, plays football in the off-season...
...team's leading scorer, in fact, in a little guy, Mike Polich, who was named yesterday to the West All-america squad, has racked up 61 points this season on 25 goals and 36 assists. Polich centers a top line of Russ Schneider (35 points) and Warren Miller (34 points...
Without waiting for an answer, he and his fellow conspirators proceed to annihilate a classic. The epic adventures are turned into a few friezes reminiscent of a sixth grade pageant: Polyphemus, the Cyclops, bears a strong resemblance to a Sesame Street Muppet; Telemachus (Russ Thacker) might have escaped from a G-rated Disney film. The celebrated dancing and fighting is reduced to a series of galvanic gestures and deafening groans. The groans may be distinguished from the songs easily: the songs have words. Those lyrics, which act upon the mind like nepenthe, are also by Segal, a classics scholar...
...interviews last week with Sally Quinn of the Washington Post, Pat Collins of CBS and TIME Reporter Russ Hoyle, Annabella tried to explain in a soft, Latin-accented voice the roots of her unlikely friendship with the chairman. A sampler follows...