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After five 90-min. sessions in Washington, aides to both Walter Mondale and Ronald Reagan shook hands last week. And with that gesture, their debate over the televised debates ended. The presidential candidates will meet in two Sunday-evening encounters. The first, which will deal with domestic issues, will take place on Oct. 7 in Louisville; the second, centering on foreign and defense policy, is scheduled for Oct. 21 in Kansas City. The vice-presidential candidates, George Bush and Geraldine Ferraro, will go head-to-head on Oct. 11 in Philadelphia...
Specifically, he shook Lion linemen, played superbly on past coverage, and shut down the corners that Harvard had to control to contain the suprisingly competent Columbia offense...
Fraser thinks the 17th century woman's limited emancipation crested in midcentury, when Oliver Cromwell shook the established ways of English society. By the end of the century the punishing cycle of a woman's life and the pendulum of history had swung women's status back to just about where it was 100 years before. But in the meantime, women had talked. Women had thought for themselves. In Eraser's phrase, history held the door open briefly and, as we who read the 17th century with 20th century eyes know, nothing was ever quite...
...nationwide television. It seemed to support the Government's contention that De Lorean was a willing participant in the drug deal, which involved 220 Ibs. of cocaine worth $24 million. Prosecutors had described him as a jet-setting profligate with "the conscience of a tomcat" who "shook hands with the devil...
...priests, including Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann and Culture Minister Ernesto Cardenal Martinez (at whom the Pope shook his finger in reproach during his 1983 visit to Nicaragua), struck a compromise with their church superiors in 1981 by agreeing not to say Mass or perform religious functions while holding their government posts...