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...beat MIT, 19-1, Saturday afternoon... Third base coach Rich Reid received a game ball for correctly predicting that the umpires would miss at least one call an inning... After beating Yale and Brown last weekend at the Ivies, the team expected the weekly New England coaches' poll to rank them higher than the usual eighth place, but the poll did not appear in the Globe this week...
...vacuum created by the missing players, who were all participating in other weekend tournaments, proved decisive as Yale marched away with the championship title. Yet the Crimson returned, boasting a "C" division title, a "B" division finalist rank, and several stellar performances from inexperienced squad members who moved up from the J.V. for the tournament...
Moscow had plenty to kick about. Two weeks ago, the Kania government promised official recognition to Rural Solidarity, an 800,000-member independent farmers' union. At the same time, some 500 rank-and-file Polish Communists were allowed to hold a heretical meeting at Torun to demand greater democratization within the party. As if that were not enough to exasperate the Kremlin, Polish leaders continued to pursue a conciliatory policy toward the independent trade union federation. That policy was reflected in the government's proposed agenda for talks with Solidarity that resumed at week's end. Though...
...William McWhirter, who conducted the only interviews given by these officers, found them determined to approach their assignment with cool professionalism. "The only change for us is that there is a shooting war going on," said one combat-experienced officer. Like the other team members, he withheld his name, rank and his unit's location for their protection. Like the others, he also insisted on their designation as "trainers"-rather than "advisers"-meaning that they do not go into battle with their "trainees...
Journalists generally rank the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times as the three best papers in the country. The Post's particular distinction is its pizazz. This is largely the doing of its celebrated executive editor, Ben Bradlee, aggressive, abrasive, amusing -the very model of Jason Robards in All the President's Men. With Watergate to his credit, he glories in playing what he describes as journalistic "hardball." He is a Harvardman who talks constantly in street profanity...