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During the moments before the crash, which left 15 dead and more than 170 injured, I was sitting in the ninth car of the Colonial contemplating moving to a non-smoking car further ahead. It was in those cars, near the front of the train, that the 15 lost their lives. Earlier, I had moved from an uncomfortable car nearer the rear of the train...
Champagne flowed like tears at the Ninth Annual Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, where praise bubbled as high as emotions. "We've been crying the whole weekend," confessed Lucille Ball, 75, who was feted along with Singer Ray Charles, 56, Actors Hume Cronyn, 75, and Jessica Tandy, 77, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 70, and Choreographer Antony Tudor, 78. A galvanizing high point of the gala (which will be shown on cbs next week) came with the singing of America, the Beautiful by the choir of Charles' alma mater, the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, joined by Stevie Wonder...
...paunchy and timeworn; he is ethically shady and quick to grab a buck, not a tattered idealist clinging to principle; he is snippy not only to those in authority but also to working people and the down and out. Fletch, Too (Warner; 249 pages; $15.95) is Mcdonald's ninth and & allegedly last book about this scamp, although only the second in the chronology of Fletch's career: after the character proved a hit, Mcdonald worked forward and backward to fill in his story. In this volume, Fletch sets off to Kenya in search of his father, who has apparently resurfaced...
...Brown's third goal--which came with two minutes left in the game--was called back and Harvard hung on for a 3-2 victory. The win was the Crimson's ninth this year against no losses--all against ECAC opponents. Harvard is off to its best start in almost 50 years...
...ninth city councilor, Alfred E. Vellucci, aligns himself with neither group, making it more difficult for either faction to gain a five-vote majority on any issue...