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Harvard returned to Cambridge with only three individual victors. Freshman Molly Clark captured the 100 and 200-mter breast stroke, sophomore Susan Harris notched a victory in the 1000-meter freestyle, and senior standout Jennifer Goldberg captured both diving events...
...speculation that poured forth last week reflected Western eagerness to plumb, however erratically, the Kremlin's unfathomable ways. In Washington, Syndicated Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak reported that Rumanian intelligence officials had passed word to the U.S. that Chernenko, 73, had suffered a stroke. The conservative U.S. journalists also floated the notion, citing sources in the Reagan Administration, that Politburo Member Gorbachev was out of the running for the top Kremlin job. Instead, they reported, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, 75, might take over...
...Paris, the left-leaning French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur said that Chernenko had suffered a "brain (stroke) or cardiac attack." The attack occurred a week ago and robbed Chernenko of his speech, the magazine claimed...
...recording studio. In more than 90 releases, ranging from two idiosyncratic versions of Bach's "Goldberg" Variations to his transcriptions of Wagner, Gould did just that. Flamboyant willfulness marked too much of his work, but at his best he had a penetrating, furiously original vision. Gould died of a stroke in 1982 at age 50, but he remains a challenging figure. Now two new books tap the mind behind the fingers. In Conversations with Glenn Gould (Little, Brown, $15.95), based largely on a 1974 two-part interview in Rolling Stone, Jonathan Cott elicits from the reclusive Canadian his views...
...stroke occurred just one day after the world's most famous heart patient took a phone call from President Reagan, who rang up to wish him well. Seizing his chance, Schroeder told the President, "I've got a Social Security problem." Reagan asked Schroeder to repeat himself. "O.K.," said the patient. "I filed March of 1984 for Social Security, and I'm just getting a runaround. I'm not getting anything at all." Promised the President: "I'll get on it right away." Two Social Security officials appeared at Schroeder's bedside the next...