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Sources at Chicago yesterday offered an alternative scenario: they say that Harberger probably never intended to accept the offer at Harvard. Harberger felt his administrative reputation at Chicago was in decline, members of the department believe, and he thought a prestigious offer from Harvard might reverse the trend...
...primary campaign strategy that will send him to the July convention "with between 800 and 900" of the 998 delegates needed to win the nomination. Once in Detroit, according to this plan, Anderson will be able to woo enough other delegates to win on the first ballot. But this scenario combines so many unlikely events, including a victory in the June 3 winner-take-all primary in Reagan's home state of California, that the strategy is not considered realistic by anyone not in the Anderson camp...
This dread scenario is occurring with dismaying?and increasing ?frequency around the world. In the U.S. alone, 405,000 people will die of cancer and nearly a million new cases will be diagnosed this year. Nearly every family is affected; one out of every four Americans will eventually be stricken with the baffling disease. Progress has been made in treating some forms of cancer. Yet despite years of great effort and expense by government and private researchers around the world to understand and conquer the disease, the best that many cancer victims can hope for is to have their lives...
...other hand, one simply cannot deny that the Harvard swimmers had far greater potential for proving themselves than they showed. In fact, a scenario might have unfolded in which the aquamen finished in a strong twelfth place. Very few lifetime best performances were displayed by the Crimson squad in a meet that is known for such occurrences...
...Hollywood horror flick, its title might be The Rash. Scenario: on Eastern Air Lines' regular flights between New York City and Florida, stewardesses and a few stewards begin to contract a strange, oozing rash on their faces, chests and hands. The fluid escaping from their inflamed pores looks like blood, though it is not, and so the rash is called "red sweat." Others are stricken by reddish blotches of pinprick-size dots. But either way, before a doctor can diagnose it, the mysterious rash disappears-until, perhaps, the next New York-Florida flight...