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...hours or so, ever since he went into a coma, that he would die. And when word finally came, they went into the streets and began to beat the lids of trash cans against the pavement and whistle, a high, piercing shriek. God, it sounded eerie, even on tape, even broadcast halfway around the world. But it didn't sound odd, for the Irish women of Belfast have been making the sound most every day since the troubles began in 1969. Usually it's a warning to the men that the British are moving in; sometimes, like last week...
...letter published together with that of Dr. Womack on April 30, an April 24 misquotation from the Crimson. Dr. Long never expressed the opinion that the "reeducation camps" in Vietnam are "necessary," as can be attested by a complete recording of the panel discussion, which I have on tape. He said rather that there is currently much debate in Vietnamese society and within Vietnam's government as to whether or to what extent they should be continued...
Predictably, the rest of the gold donated to the Harvard cause was given by Adam Dixon in the 500-meter run. Breaking the tape at 3:45.1. Dixon set a new stadium record but fell shy of the meet record by about one second. Dixon might have contributed additional points to the thinclad tally, but he had to run in a series of preliminary heats which precluded an appearance in the 800-meter...
...capital of a country at war with itself, Kabul still has a surprising appearance of normality. Its shops are fall its currency (the afghani) reasonably sound, its merchants eager to do business. The bazaars, in fact, are fall of consumer goods from around the world: tape recorders and calculators from Japan, jeans from the U.S., Harris Tweeds and Swiss chocolates from Europe. Fruit and vegetables and other foodstuffs are also plentiful. Soviet families, however do not venture into public markets for fear of being attacked...
...championship game in 1972, that put Carl Bernstein in the newsroom of the Washington Post a few hours after the police found a strange collection of characters at the Watergate. (Actually, Watergate was a regular soap opera of the fortuitous: if one of the burglars had not stupidly left tape over the latch of a rear door, the night watchman might never have discovered the caper and Congress might never have investigated and the White House tape system might never have been revealed and Richard Nixon might never have resigned.) Luck was the invisible hand that prompted Skylab to scatter...