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...presidential bid. Daly has been pre-occupied of late with trying to keep the Kennedy Library, a ten-year-old proposed project, in Cambridge. Whether he succeeds or not, he has obscured both John F. and Jackie Kennedy (quite a task) as the central figure in the library tug...
...armada steamed into Pittsburgh last week and won two of three games from the first-place Pirates. The Bull and the Phils have finally arrived, says Relief Pitcher Tug McGraw. Resurrecting a battle cry he sounded when the Mets charged to the 1973 pennant, he tells skeptics, "You gotta believe...
...long by 15-ft.-high beauty of a monster that requires eight stagehands to operate. London's conception is not perfect: he may not put the Valkyries on wheels, but having them cavort like chorus girls is not an improvement. There is no bear for Siegfried to tug, alas, nor does Brünnhilde ride a horse into the pyre. But she does sleep on a genuine jagged peak-not just some symbolic platform. Reversing another current fashion, London puts light rather than gloom on everything, and the operagoer does not have to view the whole show through...
...regardless of how Harvard manages to reorient Washington's desires, with the health management course there seems to be little doubt that society comes out ahead of the Harvard-Washington tug of war. The educators involved in the program are readying the two courses, one on occupational health and safety to be given in January, and another on health policy management and policy-making in February. The February course's objective is to show administrators how costs can be cut and care improved in hospitals. The January program gives the administrators a share of the expertise in legislating against pollution...
...group and branch of the performing arts wants to get in on the act, to prove it's their Bicentennial, too, whether it is or not. Some of this clamoring to participate can be analyzed as a desire to claim a share of the Bicentennial profits. Witness the squalid tug of war between Boston, Philadelphia, Washington and every other city that wants to boost its tourism by being designated America's Bicentennial City. Enough of this patriotic crap about the United States; the real question is which one of them is going to walk off with the money...