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...first six months after they returned to Plains, Rosalynn could not bear to watch the news. She had been stung badly by the defeat, and most particularly by comments that the Reagans had restored some class to the White House. Carter was so enraged he was ready to punch one disparaging writer, but he says he has since forgiven him. Rosalynn is not that easy. When a tactless old friend teased her recently about laying out a tablecloth for lunch, saying that Nancy Reagan surely would have approved, she glared at him, unamused...
...elated, perhaps overly so. In a slightly misguided effort to increase the psychological pressure on the Argentines, task-force Commander Woodward indulged in some very un-British braggadocio following the assault. "South Georgia was the appetizer," the rear admiral told British journalists aboard his flagship Hermes. "Now the heavy punch is coming behind. This is the run-up to the big match, which, in my view, should be a walkover." Advised Woodward to the remaining Argentine troops in the Falklands: "If you want to get out, I suggest you do so now. Once we arrive, the only way home will...
Hundreds of high school seniors sent their official acceptances to Byerly Hall this week as Harvard's Class of 1986 began to sign up. Beverly Richmond and Catharine Toulmin--from Brookline, Mass., and Washington, D.C. respectively--beat everyone to the punch, however, earning the distinction of being the first two to reply in the affirmative...
Returness Paul Steinhouser at second base and first-baseman-pitcher Steve Kordish will provide whatever offensive punch exists for Princeton...
That left Allard to deliver the knockout punch to Northeastern pitcher O'Leary, a two-run blast over the 340-foot sign in right field...