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...responses: JIM CALLINAN, Harvard's leading football rusher--To play the Yale Game again; SCOTT POWERS, men's ice hockey--To play in the NBA; ANITA RIVAL, women's swimming--A backrub and an "A" in Chemistry; STEVE FLACH, football kicker--It depends who his Secret Santa is; ROY ROBERTS, rugby captain--Peace on Earth and goodwill towards men and women; DEBBIE KALISH, women's tennis--a year's supply of coffee frappes and bagels with cream cheese from the Eliot House Grille; TERRY FRICK women's swimming--a goldfish; DAVE COATSWORTH. Classics concentrator and men's volleyball...
...Royal Oak, a dozen long lines of people wait for benefit checks in shamed, disconsolate quiet. Most act too embarrassed to talk even to fellow job seekers. Few seem hopeful of finding work. Says Gloria Condele, 44, a laid off cashier: "Even people who are still working are worried." Roy Gavel, previously laid off as a Chevrolet assembly worker in 1975, got certified as a diesel mechanic to ensure more steady work. His new job lasted about a year; after more than 20 applications for jobs, he has given up on Detroit and, joining a growing tide, plans to move...
Williams' victory also enhances her chances in the S.D.P.'s leadership contest. Since it was founded, the party has been led by four former Labor Cabinet ministers: Williams, Roy Jenkins, William Rodgers and David Owen. But the party will have to choose one designated leader before the next election, a choice that could cause a problem. Within the Social Democrats' inner circle, one faction wants the selection to be made on a one member-one vote basis, a procedure that would favor Williams, whose support is strong among the grass roots. Others want the choice...
...personality to be reckoned with in British politics. Margaret Thatcher, who watched the results on TV in her private quarters at 10 Downing Street, had every reason to pay close attention to the victor. Some newspapers described Williams as the probable successor to the Prime Minister. As Labor M.P. Roy Hattersley put it: "Acknowledging Mrs. Williams' extraordinary ability to walk spotless through the minefield of party politics requires neither graciousness nor chivalry. It is a simple fact...
...last survivors, along with Copland and Sessions, of an important generation of composers that included Walter Piston, Roy Harris, Douglas Moore, Howard Hanson and Leo Sowerby, Thomson's lasting contributions are likely to be the two operas he wrote with Stein (the second was the 1947 The Mother of Us All) and his criticism. Critic Thomson cheerfully concurs about the operas, at least: "I think I am a good opera composer. There have been some 3,000 performances of The Mother of Us All. It makes you know it is foolproof." No major opera house has yet produced...