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...senior men in the area just before World War II, urging them to reject missionary rule and return to kastom living. Green Point men, sitting under the fern-clad branches of an enormous banyan tree, say Frum's original name was Brum, or broom, referring to the need to "sweep out" foreign influences that threatened traditional lifestyles...
...line is simply to insist that Soviet negotiators spell out all the small print in Gorbachev's proposals. So far as it goes, that is logical. For all its ambiguities and propagandistic sweep, the plan hints at enough concessions to spur serious negotiating. Only detailed probing at Geneva will determine how much is real and how much is propaganda, and there is room for healthy skepticism. But the heat will be on Washington--both for the sake of winning the battle for public opinion and, more important, for keeping alive the hope of a genuine arms-control breakthrough--to come...
...offensive explosion (18 runs and 26 hits) produced a sweep over Columbia and the team rebounded from a loss in the opener at Dartmouth when injured Michele McAteer twirled a three-hitter in the season finale...
...meteoric rise through Easterns, the Crimson capitalized on the momentum by jumping out to an 8-3 start this season. Harvard took three of its four contests at the Princeton Invitational, dropping its only game 8-4 to No. 18 Princeton. The Crimson returned home to Blodgett Pool to sweep Yale and Brown and claim the Ivy Invitational title...
Once pegged to start the deciding third game of the Ivy Championship Series on the basis of his experience, a Harvard sweep suddenly rendered his work unnecessary...