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...typical of the Crimson's sweet-and-sour season that everything went right in the nightcap of the doubleheader. Harvar4d exploded for 18 hits, turned five double, plays, and rode Billy Doyle's six-hit pitching to a 14-3 victory. The twinbill split gives the Crimson a 5-5 Eastern League record with three games remaining--plus a rain-out against Brown that will not be made up--remaining...
Only Sally Bentley, 26, disputes the hazy image of genial blandness. "He was well known because his sister was well known," says the woman. "John was mousy. His sister was friendly and cute and alive. I thought he was sour about that. John never did anything outstanding or memorable...
...continuing tribal warfare, Mugabe pledged to press ahead with Zimbabwe's reconstruction. "While they may not have been turned into plow shares," he said, "the swords of war have nonetheless been rendered blunt, and within our country we are determined to keep them that way." The only economic sour note for Mugabe was sounded in Pretoria, which announced last week that it would end its preferential trade agreements with Zimbabwe in a year...
From the way Spain's political leaders were behaving, it was hard to believe that democracy had just triumphed over a carefully planned coup attempt. No profound sense of relief pervaded the nation. Instead, the briefly celebrated victory seemed to be turning sour in the realization that, far from being dispelled, the threat of another uprising by franquista military leaders persisted. So cautious was the government in dealing with rebellious elements that, only days after the 18-hour, Feb. 23 takeover of the Spanish parliament by gun-toting soldiers, one neo-fascist agitator was bold enough to declare...
...House Ways and Means Committee opened hearings into Reagan's tax plans last week on a sour note. Democrats assailed the President's argument that his proposed individual tax cuts would inspire people to save or invest rather than to simply consume more and increase inflation. Texas Democrat J.J. Pickle scoffed at this approach as "jelly bean talk." New York Democrat Thomas Downey acidly told Treasury Secretary Donald Regan: "I do believe a lot of your assumptions are hallucinogenic." Replied a shaken Regan: "I resent that. To call the Treasury Secretary of America . . ." Downey interrupted: "You cannot cite...