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...Harvard University in 1927 that I first decided to go into politics," says Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr., the nation's Speaker of the House for the last decade, in his memoirs to be published in the fall. Watching the University's 276th Commencement day exercises--with graduating seniors replete in white suits, drenching each other in bootleg champagne--the teenager made his career choice...
...Tip did more for Boston and Cambridge than any other local figure in the last 50 years," Frank says. The Speaker worked hard to bring money and jobs to his district, including recent efforts to keep a local arsenal open and to improve Boston's tangled expressways...
...Reagan's misty eyes. And what really gets the President's goat--"what is driving me up the walls," as he told Time Magazine in a remarkable interview at the end of November--"is that this [the Iran-contra affair] wasn't a failure until the press got a tip from that rag in Beirut and began to play...
...asked if he would appear on a new movie-review program being produced by WTTW, the local PBS station. He was intrigued by the idea but not by the prospective costar: his archrival from the Chicago Tribune, Gene Siskel. "The answer," Ebert recalls, "was at the tip of my tongue: no." Nor did Siskel, now frequently referred to as "the other one," relish the thought of sharing a stage with "the most hated guy in my life...
...also had the opportunity to grip a javelin--it was a long perfectly aerodynamic spear. I hefted the javelin as if to throw it with the tip against my ear. I noticed that the weight was shifted mostly to the rear which made the javelin appear unbalanced. Possibly, this weight shift occurred in response to a 104.41-meter throw by a Polish athlete that sailed off the throwing surface and nearly hit a runner on the track...