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...soon as Mondale eased off, Hart began to strike back. "This Hart is like a snake you beat into the ground. You think he's dead, then bam! He's back to life again," said Nagle. Ohio and Indiana, where unemployment rates are around 10% and organized labor is strong, seemed like safe territory for Mondale; he wears the union label proudly and had won every previous primary state in which unemployment exceeded 10%. But Hart was finally able to reach into the blue-collar vote with clever ads that showed the Colorado Senator standing in working clothes...
There were recruiters in Walla Walla, Wash., more than a century ago, long before it was Walla Walla. Missionaries, determined to sell the local heathens on Christianity, were the first white settlers between the Snake River and the Blue Mountains. Their mission, however, was a mixed success: after eleven years, the Indians massacred them. Soon the U.S. Cavalry came, built a fort and won the peace...
...propellant half exhausted and Challenger down to a fifth of its own reserves of forward-thruster fuel-close to the bare minimum needed to rescue an astronaut in free flight-Crippen ordered Nelson to return. Inside Challenger 's cockpit, Mission Specialist Terry Hart, 37, tried three times to snake the remote-controlled mechanical arm past the panels to snatch the satellite, but it remained tantalizingly out of reach. Said Crippen: "We came close that time, but no cigar...
Director Peter Sellars '80 said the show is an adaption of a traditional Chinese village play called The White Snake. Sellars had previously considered basing it on a 14th-century Russian play or a work by Moliere...
...dice came up snake eyes for the five following Harvard professors, all recently named by Bok to chair their respective departments for a period of three years effective July 1. Department chairman is a time-consuming administrative task at Harvard that rotates among department members. The unlucky five this time around are: Assistant Professor Gary A. Tubb (the incumbent in Sanskrit and Indian Studies); Professor Warren D. Goldfarb (Philosophy); Professor of Arabic Wolfhart P. Heinrichs (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations); Professor Stanley J. Tambiah (Anthropology); and Professor Sheldon H. White (Psychology and Social Relations...