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...Harvard women's tennis team had a rough time of it in the final day of play in the Princeton Invitational Tennis Tournament. The tourney in New Jersey included all the Ivy squads, as well as Clerason, William & Mary, Georgia and Syracuse...
...these seem not to fit into the book. Much more interesting are a few other dissidents' essays on subjects besides Sakharov, such as a piece by geophysicist Grigorii Podyapolsky, entitled "My Conversation with the Director of the Institute for Geophysics of the USSR Academy of Sciences. "This is a rough transcript of Podyapolsky's interrogation by his superior in the department, who is pressuring him to renounce his signature on a petition supporting a fellow scientist, who has been imprisoned in a mental hospital for expressing dissident opinions. The Director's actual words give unusually exact insights into the mind...
...this was in the days of the U.S.'s uncontested strategic nuclear superiority over the Soviet Union. in the late '60s and early '70s, that comfortable margin in intercontinental weaponry gave way to parity, or rough equivalence. At the same time, the Soviets continued their buildup in military manpower and conventional forces within Europe until the Warsaw Pact had a considerable numerical edge over NATO...
...Soviets countered with a zero option of their own. Arguing that there is already a rough balance in medium-range (1,000 to 5,000 kilometers) missiles and aircraft in Europe, they proposed that each side should freeze its forces (thus ruling out the deployment of cruise missiles and Pershing IIs). By 1985 there would be a reduction from 1,000 missiles and bombers on each side to 600; the total would drop to 300 by 1990 and eventually to zero...
...Boston called Cheers, and if it were anything like the one in NBC's new sitcom of the same name, it would be just the sort of hangout where Democratic Congressman Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill Jr., 70, might down a brew at the end of a rough day. After hearing that he thought so too, the producers invited O'Neill to tape a cameo appearance. For his TV acting debut, if one doesn't count the House's televised debates, O'Neill is hunched over the bar when George Wendt, 34 (the Speaker...