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...will come back with the hostages," he was reported to have told his aides, "but I hope to start a successful turn, get going in another direction, so that the U.S. and Iran will start negotiating." The 61-year-old diplomat, who once described his office as a mailbox for messages from antagonistic governments, was reluctant to go to Tehran in the first place. "How will the Iranians react?" he asked. "My going there depends on their attitude...
Today I found the Commencement issue of the Harvard Gazette in my mailbox. It has been two years since I graduated and I've changed a lot, but I can't say that the Gazette has. I don't suppose Harvard is much different either--which is a pity. Anyway, reading President Bok's speech set me thinking again about the old hot house on the Charles, set me thinking enough to try and put down a few suggestions for improvements...
When I saw Ansel Adams on the cover, I was elated. I stopped on the way back to the house from the mailbox and took an especially long look at the Blue Ridge Mountains near my home...
...girl with 15. They receive a silver dollar and the honor of being photographed with Evans. A human in white chicken suit demands entry. A lengthy rule-book search discloses no weight limit to keep him out but he is disqualified be cause he cannot fit through the mailbox...
...high point of the day, however, comes early. The 45th bird, Lola B., a 15-oz. common bantam with a proud black tail, breaks cleanly from the mailbox, then swings sharply to the left and lands atop a sheep shed beyond the snow fences. A tape-measure team figures her flight at 302 ft. 8 in., which betters Kung Flewk's old record...