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...remarkable. A fan at a game a couple of years ago would be treated to the fancy footwork and headwork of the foreigners who came to Harvard with their soccer skills firmly established. They were men who had come to Cambridge primarily to study, who played soccer as a sidelight, who were in the game because they enjoyed it and, without expending much energy, could dribble circles around most Americans...
Investigative reporter Egan has an interesting sidelight on the affair. He said Morrissey clandestinely tape recorded the transactions, that he has heard the tape although he does not know where "it is, and that the two men definitely indentified themselves as CIA agents...
...sidelight to last week's talks in Paris was a rumor in the State Department that Kissinger erred last October when he hurried home to Washington with a draft agreement that turned out to be less than airtight. There is no evidence that this is so, and the whispers of a Kissinger goof could be put down to State jealousy, but they would surely increase if the President's negotiator were to fail to nail down a settlement on the second go-round. In short, some furious bargaining remained to be done before either Kissinger...
...Just a brief question that has an interesting Harvard sidelight. Do you think that Henry Kissinger has had very much to do with any of this...
...interesting sidelight to Bertrand's career has been his role as house parent at the George Junior Republic School, which is primarily for problem children. Many of the students there have police records or have been involved with drugs. Harkness thought that Bertrand's police experience would be valuable and suggested he take...