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...Nautilus makes you feel good and hungry afterwards," Joseph F. Jason '77 a varsity football team member said yesterday. Jason said the machine gave him endurance in running and that "it's key asset is it's an extended strength--it doesn't burn your muscles...
...native intelligence. He recalls how Brezhnev used to tease him during meetings, often pretending to steal Hyland's briefcase, full of top-secret papers. Hyland has listened with fascination as Brezhnev has recounted, without referring to notes, minute details of a negotiation held three years before. Another asset not shared by all Brezhnev's colleagues: "He can be frank without getting acrimonious...
...additions to the program were two boyhood pals turned professional soccer players, Mike Stricklin and Kevin Welsch. These assistant coaches provided Ford with examples of American players who made good, a definite asset to a program where out of 20 varsity players, almost half were freshmen and sophomores. It is also rumored that Stricklin and Welsch know a little about the game itself, although you could never tell by just meeting them...
Rostropovich will be as big an asset to music in this nation as Pele was to the game of soccer. You have fulfilled many of the wishes of classical-music lovers. To the Russians who mistreated the artists who are in exile in our country: Repent! You have lost the best in music, literature and dance...
...dominated provincial government at Stormont, but it is possible--and there are innumerable political precedents for this--that the British government was ignorant of it. Only when the Catholics rose up in protest in 1968 and the present troubles were ignited (and Ulster became a burden, and not an asset) did the British government reassess its position and begin applying political leverage. Its first major move was the introduction of troops in 1969 to quell rioting, particularly of the Protestants, who were gearing up for full-scale violence...