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...LET’S CRAM TOGETHER...
...undergrads camping out in the bowels of Cabot Library as they cram for final exams in introductory science courses, help...
...misery was absent last week, and so it may not be a complete coincidence that baseball's strike was short-lived. Over an amazing prestrike weekend, baseball's Rod Carew, Tom Seaver and Dwight Gooden, football's Joe Namath, O.J. Simpson and Roger Staubach, a runner named Steve Cram, a tennis player named Boris Becker and an amateur golfer named Scott Verplank had got in the first word, not for the players or the owners but for the games: excellence. On dark occasions in sports, the President and both houses of Congress can vouch for this inessential industry...
...fair-haired Englishman, Steve Cram, 24, was running the world off its feet with three world records in 20 days. That orange dervish Boris Becker, 17, confirmed his Wimbledon tennis championship in West Germany's first Davis Cup victory over the U.S. (the best American, John McEnroe, avoided Hamburg). But of all the sunny events piled up against the bleakness of arbitration clauses and pension proposals, the singular one was actually contested in a rainstorm at the Butler National Golf Club near Chicago, ultimately for no money at all. Scott Verplank, 21, a student at Oklahoma State, became the first...
...Still, sighs one Sovietologist, "let's face it. He's starting from such a low base that any knowledge would be an improvement." Reagan is so supremely confident of his ability to persuade the Soviets of the virtues of the American way that he is not troubling himself to cram for the summit. His aides know, however, that he will need a lot more than charm and amiability when he faces the tough-minded Soviets at the higher-stakes show in Geneva. --By David Beckwith. Reported by Barrett Seaman/Washington