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From the deep, cold, green-black waters of Norway's longest fjord, the questions kept coming. What was it that several people had seen mysteriously breaking the surface between the dark, forbidding mountains that line Sogne Fjord? Was it a whale? Was it a wreck? Was it a Soviet submarine dropping radio beacons for possible use in some future war? As Norwegian frigates and planes, aided by British navy helicopters, crisscrossed the 112-mile-long fjord last week in an earnest game of cat and underwater mouse, an Albanian radio report offered the most amazing explanation...
Brian "R.D." Dowlings brought an undefeated, united Yale squad into Harvard Stadium in 1968. In only two seasons (he sat out most of his sophomore year with a knew injury). Dowlings had smashed all of Yale's passing records and had fashioned a 16-game winning streak, longest in the NCAA...
America would not come home to McGovern's vision. Even McGovern's extraordinary faith in himself could not survive the unanimous resonances of reality. Tuesday night brought an end to the longest declared quest for the presidency in modern times. In January 1971, still an obscure figure in national politics, McGovern said: "I seek the presidency because...! believe the people of this country are tired of the old rhetoric, the unmet promise, the image makers, the practitioners of the expedient." Yet McGovern was to stumble into those same pitfalls?and more...
...writhing male dancers. They then form a single circle of life, and voilà it is genesis time. Nijinsky is given life and immediately departs for Diaghilev's Ballet Russe, which represents earthly paradise. Thereafter, the graceful and the grotesque prance the stage in some of the longest, slowest processionals since Catherine de Medici introduced ballet spectacle to the court of France in the late 16th century. Nymphs, whores and clowns flutter merrily about. Morality figures of death and madness strut menacingly. The serpent, dressed in a red flapperesque wig and pelvis-pinching tights, snakes sneakily around her victims...
...about the topic at hand. This Sunday, when he clears his throat, adjusts the pillow seat that makes him look taller on camera, and thumbs the stack of index cards before him, Spivak and Meet the Press will be celebrating 25 years on television. At 72, he is the longest-lived personality on network TV, a monument to durability in a field where ten or twelve years can be counted a full career...