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Referee Bob Lynch had called a roughing the kicker penalty on an unidentified Harvard player, despite the fact that the ball had been partially blocked. A whirl of confusion surrounded the call, but Penn placekicker Dave Shulman nonetheless had another chance, this time from 28 yards...
Almost six years after she left the public whirl of politics for the more private pursuits of a professorship at the University of Texas, former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, 48, is anything but forgotten. In the past year Jordan has been honored repeatedly: Houston's main post office was named for her, she was inducted into the Texas Women's Hall of Fame, and the International Platform Association named her the U.S.'s greatest living orator. But the honor the eloquent Democrat liked most came last week, when Texas Governor Mark White and his wife were hosts...
...blue pants and windbreaker, sunglasses and red boots, John Paul made his first known ski outing since becoming Pope six years ago, though he skied regularly when he lived in Poland. A sweater-clad Pertini followed in a snowmobile, puffing on his pipe and crying, "Santitá [Holiness], you whirl about like a swallow." Stopping at a mountain lodge for a lunch of pasta, beef and wine, John Paul toasted "a true friendship and an authentic human sentiment." Pertini then headed back to Rome, but the Pope stayed on the slopes for another day of enthusiastic downhilling. Reported Alpine Guide...
Abboud admitted last week that he had advised Drexel Burnham Lambert on a possible investment in Continental but contended that he was not financially involved in the deal. Nonetheless, people who know the pugnacious Abboud say that he would love to get back into the big-money whirl of Chicago banking, especially if he could compete head on with the bank that sent him into corporate exile...
...seven, and he grew up amid endless scheming by Russia's landed aristocracy, the boyars. "Observing the brutal treatment that grown men inflicted on their fellows, he made ready to imitate them by tormenting animals," writes Troyat. "Standing on the ramparts of the Kremlin fortress, he would whirl young dogs above his head and hurl them down to the courtyard to break their bones. Their plaintive yelps satisfied an obscure need for revenge, as if these were hateful boyars he was putting to death." At 13, he no longer needed symbols. Toward the end of a banquet, he stood...