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Sitting in their stone-walled shelters, the guerrillas joke with insouciance while sipping tea and munching on bread and grapes. When an enemy shell goes spectacularly awry, they exchange gibes about the enemy's marksmanship. Near misses evoke nods and grins of appreciation...
...Harvard students who prefer not to shell out substantial amounts of cash to buy a tux turn to Cambridge Formal Wear, at 1902 Massachusetts Ave., where undegrads can rent a tuxedo for $45 or $55 an evening. The rental company currently has an inventory of 400 tuxedos...
...between Isadora Duncan and Lawrence of Arabia," as the Daily Telegraph affectionately put it. With the help of a few tips from the commander of the Royal Hussars' regiment, the British leader locked on her target with a laser beam and pulled the trigger, sending a 6-lb. practice shell 1,000 yds. directly to its mark. Kohl too scored a hit. "I loved it!" exclaimed Thatcher. Asked if her performance meant that women should be frontline soldiers, she dodged, but only slightly. "I'm sure after today you would approve of having a woman Prime Minister, who, after...
When protesters grab a seventh floor office in Holyoke Center, police shut off access to the Yard by locking gates. Demonstrators staged the seven-hour sit-in to protest Harvard's $8.8 million invested in the Shell...
...Thursday drop "shell-shocked" Houston Accountant Jerry Anhalt and hundreds of others in the financial community around the U.S. and kept Wall Street bartenders busy long after the close of trading. "So many people bailed out we couldn't keep track of what was happening," said one Big Board broker. "They would scream 'Sell everything!' before you could say hello on the phone." Not even the New York Stock Exchange computers could keep up with the activity, and transactions were running 30 minutes behind at noon...