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Senator Baker predicted there will "almost certainly" be an effort to cut defense spending further. Congress may also defer some of the income tax reduction, a move that Reagan strongly opposes. And finally, Capitol Hill may simply reject most of the proposed cuts, one by one. The spring swarm of "Boll Weevils," Southern conservative Democrats willing to support Reagan's first round of spending curbs, may be replaced by an autumn flight of "Gypsy Moths," moderate Republicans from the Northeast who are reluctant to reduce social spending further...
With the final seconds ticking away, the Harvard water polo team made a rush for the MIT net. Co-captain Houston Hall fed Pat Jakobson with a quick pass, and amid a swarm of bobbing heads and waving arms, Jakobson faked right, then whipped the ball past the goalie's right...
...burned into the national memory: the President waving, then being jackknifed into his limousine by a Secret Service agent; Press Secretary James Brady and a Secret Service agent falling to the pavement wounded. Brown swung his camera around in the direction of the assailant, by then smothered under a swarm of armed Secret Service men and Washington, B.C., police. "Then I saw them kick a gun away, and I followed it to where it stopped near Brady's head," says Brown. "I stayed with that shot for a while, but then I was getting upset and sick...
...cameramen swarm through the upper story of the Hasty Pudding's senescent building as the place fills with a formal-wear crowd--so many penguins waiting on John Travolta's arrival. Travolta is about to give a press conference, and his fans gather below on Holyoke St. Lights flash on, cameras start to roll, but before Travolta can be introduced, the chant floats in from outside: "We want John! We want John!" It doesn't even rhyme...
...Gravy-Sucking Bulldogs," read the crimson banner above the Union mantlepiece. "Impale Yale" proclaimed hundreds of crimson baseball caps. "Lock Yale in the Stocks" declared thousands of crimson placards. And as a swarm of crimson balloons soared to the ceiling of the Freshman Union at yesterday's Yale game pep rally, one word characterized the scene, and it was not "blue...