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Despite the absence of injured stalwarts Buck Logan and Eric Schuler and sub-par performances by veterans Andy Regan, Peter Johnson and Bruce Weber, the harriers not only managed a victory in the damp, raw air, but "smashed the hell out of them," as coach Bill McCurdy said afterward...
...common with him when we later got to know each other," Kelleher says). Born into a family of carpenters, Kelleher joined that trade when he graduated. For two years --"the two most useful years of my life for growing up and getting to know people"--he was sub-assistant carpenter. "I hadn't any expectation of going to college," he says. But since his father dreamed of his son attending West Point, Kelleher enlisted in the National Guard though he was certain "my stammer was severe enough to keep him out of the service academy. In those days, Kelleher says...
...flag": his hopeless proposals sometimes forced Senators to take stands on issues they would have just as soon avoided. He introduced numberless bills to stop abortions, to prohibit sex education, to reinstate capital punishment. All lost, by ratios of 10, 20, 50 to 1. He stalled approval of Nixon sub-Cabinet appointees who were not conservative enough for him. He embarrassed Gerald Ford by insisting that the President meet with Alexander Solzhenitsyn.* This year he delayed (but so far not once prevented) the confirmation of six suspect Reagan bureaucrats. Alone he voted against a bill to counter the 1977 Arab...
...leader of the Arab world, Gaddafi tried to engineer mergers first with Egypt, then the Sudan, Tunisia and finally Syria. He bankrolled Palestinian commando groups, including the extremists of Black September, and at one time made his country a refuge for international air hijackers. By pouring petrodollars into poor sub-Saharan Africa, he persuaded a number of African nations to sever their ties to Israel. At the same time, he proffered arms and money to "liberation" movements across the globe, ranging from the Irish Republican Army to the Philippines' Muslim rebels. Most recently, Gaddafi angered the West by dispatching...
...officers who congregate at their "sub-station" in front of the Tastee diner, around the corner from where Kalomymus performs, say they haven't changed their policy toward street entertainment, and most seemed amused, if not overjoyed, by the burgeoning crowds. "I guess anyone with a guitar can come down and make a few bucks these days," one policeman acknowledges...