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Hachette launched a $2,000,000 promotion campaign, ridiculing French journalistic "conformity" and promising Le Point's independence of everybody, including owners-a slap at Servan-Schreiber's control of L'Express. Stung by Servan-Schreiber's charge that Hachette would use Le Point to parrot the government line, Publisher Olivier Chevrillon and Editor Imbert argued that since Servan-Schreiber's entry into partisan politics, "L'Express has ceased to be a true newsmagazine." Le Point, they promised, would be objective...
...determined by the caliber of competition -have also had enough. Boston University, beaten 49-12 by the Hens this season, and Lafayette, downed 27-0, have already banished Delaware from their future schedules. Gettysburg, a 64-7 victim, wants out after 1973. New Hampshire Coach Jim Root was so stung by a 40-7 loss to Delaware last year that he left his job rather than "subject my team to that again." Says he: "They're absolutely overwhelming. They should play teams like Ohio State, Notre Dame and Alabama...
...blood disease) to take part in last month's singlehanded transatlantic sailboat race. But Globe Girdler Sir Francis Chichester sailed off anyway, was reported missing for several days, and became the object of extensive air and sea searches before he was located and helped back to port. Stung by continuing criticism, the aging mariner has now clearly identified his albatross-cancer of the spine-and attempted to justify his entry in the race...
...many were angry. Said one dissident: "One simply doesn't write such letters to people like Brezhnev." Others contended that "the tone of supplication" in Brodsky's appeal was "entirely inappropriate" in view of the rigorous Soviet campaign against Jews who have applied to leave for Israel. Stung by such criticism, Brodsky replied: "I am not begging Brezhnev for anything. My letter was simply a way of saying goodbye...
Originally, only captain Gene Clapp and cox Louie DeLosso were picked from Nash's varsity, a slight which supposedly stung the Penn eight so keenly that they won the IRA finals by two lengths to indicate their displeasure. Parker subsequently invited several additional Quakers to the Hanover, N. H., summer camp as a panacea...