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...Henley, there was no argument. The Tigers took a slight lead at the start of the race, but, by the quarter-mile point, the Crimson began to pull away, leading by a bow. Princeton tried to answer Harvard's whirlwind start with spurts between the half-mile to one-mile markers, but made no real impression...
Gorbachev, 5-ft. 9-in., stocky and balding, has amply demonstrated both teeth and smile in a whirlwind half-year. He has taken hammer and sickle to the country's bureaucracy. To date, 22 of 121 regional Communist Party first secretaries and dozens of officials in major cities and republic ministries have been fired. At the top, Gorbachev has named four new voting members of the Politburo, bringing its membership to 13, and nine new government ministers. Grigory Romanov, 62, the Leningrad party boss who was widely considered to be Gorbachev's chief rival, was unceremoniously dumped from the Politburo...
While Reagan and his staff have been concerned largely with foreign policy, the federal budget and tax reform, Meese has seized the President's more peripheral social program as his agenda. His whirlwind of activity has "very little coordination with the White House," as one presidential staff member dryly put it. But as an adviser to Reagan since his days as California Governor, and White House Counsellor during the first term, Meese knows he is / in step with the President's intention to challenge existing law on such provocative issues as abortion, criminal rights, affirmative action and school prayer...
...church service. There he was last week at New York City's Kennedy Airport, smiling out at television crews and slightly incredulous reporters. His mission: to offer optimistic words of moral assurance about South Africa's embattled white regime, whose leaders he had just met during a whirlwind five-day visit. He urged the good Christian folk of America to buy up gold Krugerrands and push U.S. "reinvestment" in South Africa...
...week's cover story and the 1982 piece, Spielberg has become even more successful and influential. "He is Hollywood's most powerful mini- mogul," says Corliss. "With the release of The Goonies and Back to the Future, we thought it the right time to catch up with this boy whirlwind and see where he was going. It turns out to be where he came from: back to his childhood...