Word: touche
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...pitted Foot vs. Thatcher showed Labor's new contender five points ahead of the incumbent as the people's choice for Prime Minister. The poll, conducted by the the M.O.R.I organization, showed that even though respondents felt that Foot had "rather extreme views," he was more "in touch with ordinary people" than Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The Labor Opposition believes that by the time the next election is called, the Conservative government will be in such deep trouble over its rigid monetarist economic policies, which so far have not cooled a raging inflation nor prevented a sharp...
...adequate to many Americans, especially away from the big cities where private lawyers' six-figure salaries provide a perspective. One congressional aide expresses this "rural factor" by saying: "In Montana, $60,000 still goes a long way." Others warn that a judiciary that is too well rewarded loses touch with the society it is serving. Two recent vacancies on the D.C. Court of Appeals attracted a pool of more than 90 applicants, many of them highly qualified, and even Harold Tyler admits that the quality of the federal judiciary has not suffered yet. Nor does the rising dropout rate...
Jean Kerr's comic touch is slightly anesthetized this time out, but she has not lost it. She couldn't. That would be out of character for the author of Mary, Mary and the droll chronicler of suburban domesticity who regaled us with Please Don't Eat the Daisies and The Snake Has All the Lines. Trust her to keep a civilized, witty tongue in her head whatever her characters' antics. Lunch Hour is a tale of extramarital hanky-panky without the id. Oliver (Sam Waterston) and Nora (Susan Kellermann) have rented the upper half...
...Bulldogs, unaccustomed to Harvard's no-lineman rule, fared no better in men's and co-ed touch football. The Eliot 26-14 drubbing of Stillman led the Harvard teams to four wins against one loss by forfeit in men's touch. Stillman redeemed itself in co-ed touch, copping a freebie from Quincy which defaulted...
After graduation, Kubacki worked and traveled in Europe before accepting the Middlesex position last year. He looks to a career education, and plans to keep in contact with Harvard football. "I stay in touch with Coach Restic, and I'll be at The Game," he says. "Those were four good years."PhotoHarvard CrimsonJIM KUBACKI...