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...Crowley says the transition from a working to a college lifestyle was difficult--his roommate last year called him "sir" for the first month--but it was well worth...

Author: By Steven M. Arkow, | Title: There and Back Again: | 11/19/1983 | See Source »

...ticket features likenesses of John Harvard and Elihu Yale and a 19th-century Sir Walter Scott poem: Then strip, lads, and to it, though sharp the weather. And if, by mischance, you should happen to fall. There are worse things in life than a tumble on heather...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: The making of the 100th Game | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

...self-restrained Sam, fully aware that he, not Hal, has the more valuable lessons to impart. While there is a disturbing lack of tension when Sam first debies Hal's demand for proper respect, the climatic strength builds up quickly to Mokse's resigned yet underfeated pronunciation "Yes, sir, Master Harold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Breaking Through Brick Wall's | 11/15/1983 | See Source »

...pieces, Castro resorted to a propaganda offensive. Beginning shortly after the invasion of Grenada, the Cuban government has been ferrying reporters and TV crews in from Miami by chartered plane for an unprecedented round of press conferences, communiques and briefings. The primary message at the moment is that Sir Paul Scoon, the Grenadian Governor General who represents Queen Elizabeth II, is a U.S. stooge, and any Grenadian government that might be set up with his help would be a puppet of Washington. Thus Cuban Vice Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcdn last week sneered that "some U.S. Army memorandum" probably gave Scoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba on the Defensive | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

...West German government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl maintained its formal opposition to the invasion, Kohl last week expressed "understanding" for the U.S. move. West German Government Spokesman Jürgen Sudhoff explained that "additional elements," such as the discovery of armed Cuban construction workers and the Grenadian Governor-General Sir Paul Scoon's plea for help, had cast new light on the events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping the Issues Separate | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

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