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...think we're getting a fair shake," George Perez-Vega, vice president of the Brownstone Steering Committee, organizers of the event, complained yesterday. "We've been planning this party for three months, and four days before, they tell us we can't have it in the street...
...Bulldogs led, 4-1, at the end of the first 25 minutes of play, but it appeared that the Crimson might shake off the frisky Elis as it started to take control of the game in the second stanza, scoring three unanswered goals before Yale responded with a tally...
EVENTS IN ARGENTINA, too, seemed destined to shake the Administration from its simplistic vision of Latin America. The Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands and the U.S. vote for a U.N. resolution condemning Argentina's actions indicated that Washington might revise its rose-colored view of Leopolde Galtieri's military dictatorship. Argentina is the exemplar of the Administration's "totalitarian" but not "authoritarian" nation. Though Galtieri's junta never won popular support through open elections, though the government is notorious for its brutal treatment of guiltless political prisoners, and despite the regime's denial of free speech, free press...
...failures of two of America's 500 largest industrial firms did not shake the financial markets or Wall Street. Moneymen have been expecting some corporate bankruptcies. Only two weeks ago, Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige said that he would not be surprised to see one or two major companies suddenly fail. Moreover, last week's casualties are not likely to be the last during the current recession. A number of equally large firms in industries such as airlines, metals, retailing, auto supply, farm equipment and housing remain on the critical list...
Lacking serious competition in New London for their first race of the year, the Crimson oarsmen had only to stretch their legs and shake off the effects of a long winter's hibernation. But even after torpedoing the Coast Guard flotilla with an impressive time of 5:52, Harvard's sluggishness showed...