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...ready for the right series. "In talking with Larry Gelbart and Gene Reynolds," Alda recalls, "I wanted to be sure that we weren't making an Abbott & Costello Go to Korea, using the war just as a straight line for the jokes. The war had to be a springboard for our best efforts, exploring the horror, not ignoring it." Everyone agreed that this would be, in Reynolds' words, "a different Hawkeye, more sensitive, compassionate and serious than in the film but, through Alan's lovely comic touch, an engaging man withal...
...Honduras John Negroponte. "Since then, the Nicaraguan government has quadrupled the number of its uniformed soldiers and brought in between 1,700 and 2,000 Cuban security advisers. Honduras and Costa Rica are worried. So is El Salvador, which has suffered from Nicaragua's role as the springboard for the Salvadoran insurgency." Said another U.S. diplomat, who traveled from the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa to observe the war games: "Big Pine is a political maneuver rather than one of major military significance...
After qualifying fourth in the preliminary rounds, the Ashland, Ky., native had a lackluster performance in the finals before a standing-room crowd at the IU natatorium and fell to sixth overall. In the springboard competition. Watson's weaker event. He placed 12th...
Watson won with a score of 539.99, comfortably ahead of second-place Brian Bungam of Austin, Tex., who had a score of 524.91. Watson also finished third in the one-meter springboard event and third overall, his finish in the top eight qualified him for the U.S. National Team...
Harvard Freshman diver Dan Watson finished third in the one-meter springboard competition at the U.S. Indoor Diving Championship in Milwaukee yesterday...