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...Crimson devotees were certainly at their best Saturday night. The standard chants of "Sieve", "Harvard" and the infamous gong were all present, but the crowd also came up with some cheers tailor made for the Spartans and their fans. When the Michigan St. Fans began chanting "Go Green, Go White" after being prompted by cue cards, the Harvard faithful responded with "Go Home!" and "Hey, Michigan We do our cheers without cue cards...
...George Smiley exists in a similar limbo. Says the author: "We are simply not on terms at the moment. He's hung up his boots." One of the problems, paradoxically, between Le Carre and his character is the television exposure that Smiley received in adaptations of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People: "I loved Alec Guinness's performance, but he gave Smiley a very definite character, and it was in this form that the public thought of him, and, inevitably, he was not my chap any more." Still, the author, 51, adds an escape clause...
Next year's course catalogue will use a tailor 6"x9" format, which should make the book somewhat thinner. Diana Whitty. Manager of classrooms, examinations and publications in the Registrar's office, said...
...approach would be made to Mafiosi in the U.S., who would be asked to get in touch with their counterparts in Italy. Marcello Campione, then military attache to the Italian mission at the United Nations, began making inquiries in New York Mafia circles. Working under a code name, "the Tailor," Campione was led to an influential Mafia consigliere in Brooklyn who makes his living by helping Italians move to the U.S. "The Fat Man," as the arranger is known in the underworld, agreed to put Campione in touch with a fugitive Mafioso from Italy who was hiding...
WILL SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME, the bright red advertisement asks in mock irritation, WHAT A PERSONAL COMPUTER CAN DO? The ad provides not merely an answer, but 100 of them. A personal computer, it says, can send letters at the speed of light, diagnose a sick poodle, custom-tailor an insurance program in minutes, test recipes for beer. Testimonials abound. Michael Lamb of Tucson figured out how a personal computer could monitor anesthesia during surgery; the rock group Earth, Wind and Fire uses one to explode smoke bombs onstage during concerts; the Rev. Ron Jaenisch of Sunnyvale, Calif, programmed...