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...Radcliffe rowers approach this weekend bewildered and upset. Senior Anne Benton, the most powerful oarswoman on the team, went home to California for an indefinite leave of absence. Katie Kelley, stroke of this year's Head boat, said, "I think people are more worried about Anne than the team. We hope she'll be back next semester." Coach Carie Graves has chosen not to re-elect a captain until she knows if Anne plans to return next term...
...into the Chungnanhai compound of Peking's Forbidden City on the pretext that an urgent meeting was about to be convened. There, they were abruptly arrested and jailed. Quickly, newspapers and radio stations were seized; key universities, where the four had influence, were surrounded by troops. With one stroke, the four leaders who had dragged China through the horrors of the Cultural Revolution had been disposed of and the way had been cleared for others to assume power. That episode, the arrest of the radical "Gang of Four," took place four years ago. Last week the Chinese leadership announced...
...year came from a couple of upstart expansion teams that had never won much of anything. In the National League West, the unsung Astros finally managed to give Houstonians something to talk about besides oil and the Oilers. After a fast start, the Astros slumped at midseason when a stroke disabled their best pitcher, J. R. Richard. Fireballer Nolan Ryan faltered in Richard's slot, but Veteran Joe Niekro and a spot starter named Vern Ruhle, 29, rose to the occasion. The man who really sparked Houston's comeback was Joe Morgan, the team's feisty second...
...that insures its success. Making fun of the playwright is a dangerous game for directors; it runs the risk of suggesting to audiences that there's no value to the play, and no point in staging it. But Belgrader manages to ridicule Shakespeare's implements with the same stroke that affirms his comic genius...
...scholar said he thought the bleeding may have been caused in part by a 1964 stab wound that damaged his liver while he was ambassador to Japan. Reischauer also has an ulcer--which he ruled out as a probable source of the recent bleeding--and he suffered a mild stroke five years...