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...NOTEBOOK: The Radcliffe lightweights also took part, and the half-varsity, half-J.V. entourage had mixed results... Heavy coach Carie Graves was absent from the regatta; she is in New York with the U.S. Olympic squad that will tour Europe this summer...
...STOOD ALONE on the stage in Montreal's smoke-filled Paul Sauve Arena, cigarette absent, trying to start his speech to no avail. "Mes chers amis," he said several times in an attempt to quiet the crowd's thunder. After a quarter of an hour, Rene Levesque, leader of the separatist Parti Quebecois and premier of Quebec, finally launched into his concession of defeat in Tuesday's province-wide referendum. "Until next time," he told his supporters, eliciting another raucous round of applause...
Innocent Blood is James' so-called breakout novel. Her gloomy detective, Adam Dalgliesh, is absent, and the publishers have billed the book as "a major work of fiction." Commercially their hunch was right: Innocent Blood has been sold to the movies for $350,000, and the paperback rights went for $813,000. If it is not a thriller, neither is the new book a conventional novel; it depends solely on suspense for its sustained pace - and that is all to the good. The sad news is that the author has emphasized her real but riskier talent: writing about...
Spring training 1980. Absent: living legends Larry Brown and Mike Stenhouse (lost to the pros), last year's star pitcher Tim Clifford and assorted other luminaries. Present: a freshman shortstop, three freshman pitchers, a freshman right fielder, a designated hitter, a spotty pitching staff, new uniforms. Outlook: "There's really no way I can tell because we haven't been outside, but we'll go as far as the pitching will take us."--Nahigian...
Conspicuously absent from this summit was Jimmy Carter. In a decision that appalled many Western allies and annoyed some Yugoslavs, the President stayed home and instead sent a delegation headed by Vice President Walter Mondale. The official U.S. mourning party of 25 included Treasury Secretary G. William Miller and the President's mother Lillian, as well as low-level politicians from Mondale's home state of Minnesota. "I don't think we have anything to apologize for," said a ranking U.S. diplomat defensively, adding that "Mondale is a major figure...