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November. The days grow short, the nights cold. Time to reach for that travel brochure for, where else, South Florida, America's favorite winter playground. Hmmm, let's see now. Here is a picture of palm trees swaying gently under a cottony blue sky while a family frolics in the foamy surf. Here is a snowy white heron flitting along a river of sea grass in the Everglades, the mangrove and palmetto serene as a Sunday morning. There is a creamy stucco Palm Beach mansion, its red tile roof glinting fiercely in the sun and bougainvillea rioting, colorfully...
...shoppers grow ever longer as bread, milk and cooking oil get scarcer. Only Polish humor, it sometimes seemed, was still in abundance. A cartoon in Solidarity's weekly newspaper showed two Poles discussing politics. "I hear Solidarity is pouring oil on the waters," says one. The other answers: "Hmmm, I wonder where they got it? " -By Thomas A. Sancton...
...opens the red folder reserved for classified material and frowns over one document. His lips tighten, he shakes his head, lets out an audible "Hmmm" and replaces the paper. In Sacramento, Reagan relied heavily on one-page "minimemos" prepared by his staff. Now the memorandums are longer, and they conclude with a space for Reagan to indicate one of four options: approve, approve as amended, reject, no action. Some of the memos are thoroughly routine. On this Lincoln's Birthday Reagan promotes nine military general officers and approves a presidential proclamation on agriculture...
...NOTEBOOK: The win marked the first time Harvard had beaten Yale in four years. The Crimson last won the Beanpot four years ago, and last made the ECAC playoffs then, too. Hmmm.....The announced crowd of 3350 is by far the largest of the year. Capacity is 2850...The junior varsity cruised to yet another win, Saturday afternoon, beating Yale, 8-0. Kevin Hampe's boys are now 14-0-1...And plaudits to Lloyd Perlmutter, who along with goalie Nathan Berkowitz won the shootout for Mather House, 2-1, over Currier. The Voice of Bright Center exhibited quite...
...sitting at Harvard, surrounded by all this affluence, you realize no one here thinks of eating road kills. But that is what we ate. And my dad would go out and shoot squirrels. Now I walk around and see also those fat squirrels scampering about and I think hmmm," she says, cocking her head and peering at an imaginary squirrel...