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...Harvard record for shutouts in a season was set in 1979 when Wendy Carle and Barb Mahon teamed up for eight, but even they were unable to string together more than two in a row. Whitley, a member of the under-19 girls national team, has hardly broken a sweat in her four straight shutouts...
...success so far of the Keverian revolt has jolted a State House long ruled by a string of leaders who have dictated policy and have controlled the legislative flow in the House...
...fast-action sequence worthy of Indiana Jones, Para mount and 20th Century-Fox last week played switcheroo with top executives. Paramount Chairman Barry Diller, 42, the man responsible for the studio's long string of recent successes (Indi ana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Terms of Endearment, Flashdance), is becoming chairman of 20th Century-Fox. He replaces Alan Hirschfield, 47, who will stay on as a consultant. Marvin Davis, half owner of Fox, wooed Diller by giving him part ownership of the film studio, along with salary and bonuses that will doubtlessly exceed...
...only one big hit this year, Romancing the Stone, and a string of flops, including Rhinestone, Unfaithfully Yours and Sixpack...
Nelson cites a string of liberal republican candidates, including Sears in 1982, gubernatorial candidate Francis W. Hatch, Jr. in '78, and Senator Ed Brooke in '78, who lost to Democrats. The reason, he says, is that they did not represent their real constituency, the working class Republicans and the conservative Democrats that booted Dukakis out of office in '78 in favor of right-wing Democrat Edward J. King...