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Enter 158-lb. Sean Healey, a Crimson wrestler who has been plagued by inconsistency throughout the season. But Healey turned the tide for Harvard, pinning another outstanding Columbia wrestler, Dan Pepin, with a well-executed pancake maneuver to tie the score...
...produce a forecast of dwindling deficits and a believable strategy for bringing them down. For months, the President's economic advisers have been locked in a dispute over those subjects that was a mixture of charade and reality. It did no harm to publicize predictions of a raging tide of red ink if nothing were done about spending and taxes. "We're dealing with perceptions here," explained one White House aide, "and the perception is that Reagan is bringing the deficit down after it was in danger of being wildly out of control." Nor did it hurt...
...vain. Inevitable, inexorable, creeps forward the tide of men's despair in this petty world of fact ("There was a flood in Boston in 1835, maybe there will be again"). And all will be in vain forever, gurp, forever ("If it was 1835 I wouldn't have to go on my unicycle to Revere Beach, I could drown in my room...
...Santa Cruz County, the greatest devastation occurred along Love Creek, near the town of Ben Lomond (pop. 2,793). Naomi Taylor says she heard a rumbling and looked outside. There, 20 ft. away, a 15-ft.-high tide of water and mud cascaded past, carrying her car with it. Her house was unscathed. Lester Grizzell, 54, slept through the mud slide. Says he: "It snuck in so smooth and slippery we didn't even hear it." But when he awoke, surrounding houses were gone. In another Santa Cruz town, Felton (pop. 2,062), John Raskins and his family fled...
...Crimson's tide went out to sea for just a bit too long. With three-and-a-half minutes remaining in the game, the team began to regroup and assert itself once more...