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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...used to be Henry Kissinger who stole headlines jetting from one Middle East capital to another in a search for peace known as shuttle diplomacy. Last week, however, it seemed that the Rev. Jesse Jackson had set out to prove the shuttle is a vehicle that more than one can ride...
...famed economist who inhabits the next-door houseboat, John Maynard Keynes. The salvager plucks his life savings of $9,300 from a cache and becomes Tom McGraw, a retired fisherman. Following a ritual clue Gretel had given him a few days before dying, he heads for northern California, in search of a fictitious missing daughter who has supposedly disappeared in the moil of a fanatical religious commune. Its remaining inhabitants, when he finds them, are no Moonies. Armed to the bicuspids and as pious as piranhas, the communards turn out to be dedicated members of an international conspiracy to overthrow...
...around the corner from the Halvoniks' house and deployed a Bushnell Spacemaster, a telescope with a zoom lens that can magnify up to 45 times beyond the capability of the naked eye. Sure enough, the plants on the balcony were pot. A few hours later, armed with a search warrant, the seeing-eye detectives returned and counted 323 marijuana plants growing around the house. Inside, they found two lids of smokable grass and almost half an ounce of cocaine...
...search of a quarterback, Harvard has severe problems. Mike Buchanan has talent: Joe Restic was absolutely right to praise the Alabama option-specialist for the job he did as a sudden fill-in last week against UMass. It was a harrowing situation for an inexperienced signal-caller. But Buchanan no longer is a fill-in: he is the man. And he could have used a nice, easy, non-League game this week to get a feel for the Harvard attack. The Harvard team in general could have used a breather, to regroup and sort out the upheaval caused...
Towards seven, the tension worsens, people hollering at the cops to let them in so they won't lose the places they earned by chilly endurance. The Secret Service insists on "sweeping" the entire Common first for hidden evil, a search-and-destroy operation that requires the pinstripe suit. When the guards finally give the word, the spectators dash towards the line of yellow and white barrels separating the notables from those who will sit in the same mud, but farther back...