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...women's lightweight crew team overcame slight pre-race anxiety yesterday to defeat MIT's first boat pulling away. With a time of 6:35, the Black and White had a good nine-second open-water safety margin at the finish line of the first race of the season, which was altered and shortened form 1500 to 1300 meters because of gusty headwinds and rough water...
Next day Nunnally learned that his shots had struck John Allen Reeves, 20, and Walter Franklin Shook, 19. Reeves' wound was slight, but Shook was paralyzed from the chest down. He has filed a $1 million suit against the Nunnallys for the shooting, although the police have ruled it a justifiable act of self-defense. Now the Nunnallys are terrified; they sit up most nights with the lights turned off and wait in the dark with a .22-cal. rifle. They have thought of moving away. "But it's bad everywhere now, and we've got good neighbors," says...
...Mirror headline. DI THE DARING, exclaimed the Sun, which ran one picture of her on the front page and three more inside. The Daily Express said flatly that "a crowd of 200 gasped" as Lady Di stepped out of her limo. Even the Times of London permitted itself a slight whimsicality. When Prince Charles ascends the throne, mused Columnist Alan Hamilton, "the royal couple will be known as the King and Di." Writer Jean Rook of the Daily Express complimented Diana "for putting on a bold, beautiful front, and for turning her cold, bare shoulders on the traditional, covered...
Reagan has recommended a slight increase in the NIH budget for 1982 which falls short of the allocations proposed by Carter...
There were plenty of hints, but no real answer, as the Met staged its first new production of a season shortened by labor disputes. It was a trio of French works, with the umbrella title of Parade. The idea of presenting Satie's slight ballet Parade, Poulenc's absurdist opera buffa Les Mamelles de Tirésias and Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortilèges came from Met Production Adviser John Dexter. The common theme was not World War I (though with effort all the pieces can be connected to it) but the devices...