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Tickets for Super Bowl XVIII (in Tampa Bay Stadium) sold at a minimum cost of $60 and are expected to cost about the same next year...
...billed as the clash of the titans--superpowers Harvard and Princeton in swimming--a meet that could be decided by the final relay. Instead, it turned out to be a Super Bowl XVIII-style whitewash as the Harvard men's swimming team prevailed, 77-36, Saturday at Blodgett Pool...
...lead actor of the everlastingness of France." Indeed, allows a close confidant, Mitterrand is already thinking in terms of a Socialist presidency lasting for 14 years-long enough "to penetrate French society with the kind of modifications that will be irreversible no matter what comes after-just as Louis XVIII did not try to reverse what Napoleon had done...
...largest U.S. parachute drop in peacetime wafted down onto the sandy scrubland of Florida's panhandle early one morning this month: 2,640 soldiers leaping from 20 huge C-141 jets, along with three more planeloads of Jeeps and other heavy equipment. They came from the XVIII Airborne Corps and the First Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C. If war or the threat of war were to come in the Persian Gulf area, these paratroopers likely would be the U.S. spearhead...
Later, as a novelist, he helped fuel the age of French romanticism; as a polemicist he daringly attacked Napoleon; as a politician he served as Louis XVIII's foreign minister. En route, he out-Byroned Byron; few of Europe's great beauties-or, possibly, his sister-could resist the arrogant, magnetic aristocrat...