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William and Mary should prove a tough test to begin the home stretch. Though only 2-7, the Indians (no protests about the name in Virginia) have played a rugged schedule, which includes a 17-14 win over Dartmouth (a 30-12 victor over Harvard) and a 21-18 triumph over Rutgers. Comparison by mutual opponent is notoriously unreliable, especially in the Ivy League (Harvard beats Cornell; Cornell beats Dartmouth; Dartmouth beats Harvard), but the Indians should rate the favorite by that score. Rutgers not only thrashed Cornell and Princeton, but only lost by 17-13 to Alabama...
...first twelve states to report returns gave Reagan the lead; by 7:30 Columbia Broadcasting Systems (CBS) reporter Dan Rather was saying Carter "must be hearing the whispers of the axe," and at 8:14 p.m. the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) declared Reagan the victor, more that seven hours before it announced its final projection in the 1976 race...
...archaeology," says Beck, ";in which familiar and noteworthy quotations reveal . . . the nature of the age and the people who created them." If so, the 15th edition, with its chorus of sayings by Neil Armstrong, Muhammad Ali, R.D. Laing, Mick Jagger and the rest of the tribe, reminds one of Victor Hugo's platitude about an idea whose time has come, a quotation that Beck calmly assures us Hugo never said. Bartlett would have been proud...
...BEEN born 25 years earlier, Victor S. Navasky, editor of The Nation and author of Naming Names, a "moral detective story" into congressional investigations of Hollywood in the 1950s, would certainly have been a victim of the McCarthy era blacklists. His liberal credentials as a former editor of The New York Times and author of Kennedy Justice place him squarely in the "effete," "pinko" intellectual establishment that bore the brunt of McCarthy's character assassinations. Navasky knows this, and there is a bitter urgency about his reexamination of the '50s, whether he is writing persuasively in Naming Names or speaking...
Three decades later, sifting through the ruins in a study he describes as "less a history than a moral detective story," Victor S. Navasky begins with a question for the informers and their ghosts: At what price-not only to their victims and themselves but to the country as a whole -did these singers sing...