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Powered by the one-two scoring punch of midfielders Dave Wigglesworth and Mike Davis, the Crimson crunched Cornell, 12-8, in front of a capacity crowd at Harvard's Business School field, avenging a string of 10 straight losses...
...main punch is in para graphs six and seven. The sixth paragraph "calls upon the Government and people of Israel to ... dismantle the existing settlements and in particular to cease, on an urgent basis, the establishment, construction and planning of settlements in the Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem." The seventh paragraph "Calls upon all States not to provide Israel with any assistance to be used specifically in connection with settlements in the occupied territories...
...slowed. The jet stream had edged to the south, along a path that was much less curved. Instead of sweeping north over the Pacific with a cargo of warm, moist air and dumping snow and rain on Alaska, Washington and Oregon, the westerlies now were aiming their punch directly at California. The result: Southern California was inundated for nine days by storms that brought a total of 32.39 cm (12.75 in.) of rain...
Often, I'd replace Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal's secretaries while they went to lunch. Rosenthal, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the man with more power at the Times than anyone except for Publisher "Punch" Sulzberger, was usually out to lunch as well, but when he wasn't I would always look as if all I was doing was watching the lights on his phone. I hoped he'd never catch me reading my copy of The Kingdom and the Power, Gay Talese's "history" of the Times, which contained some less than favorable stories about some...
...public reaction to the show, nonetheless, has been good. Friedman says he has received a stream of letters, "on the whole about 90% favorable." In Britain, where the show is also being aired, one of the biggest fans is Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Last week a cartoon in Punch showed the P.M. and her Secretary of State for Industry, Sir Keith Joseph, bowing reverently before a TV set tuned in to Friedman...