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Still riding high on the waves of last Sunday's upset over Indiana, the aquamen swept (first, second and third) every event except the 100-yd. backstroke and coasted to victory in the Greater Boston Men's Swimming and Diving Championships last night at B.C.'s William J. Flynn Sports Complex...
Organizers staffed tables at each Harvard dining hall except Adams House and encouraged students to sign the forms, which will be mailed to Rep. Edward Boland (D-Mass.), chairman of the House subcommittee that will consider appropriations for reviving the draft registration...
...qualms, Squaw Valley, the last Winter Olympics held in the U.S., proved a rousing success. Except for the cross-country races, all the events were within walking distance of each other, giving the place an intimacy absent in most Olympics. In retrospect, Squaw Valley seems less commercial, truer to Olympic ideals, almost quaint. "It was the last of the small Olympics," says Penny Pitou, a U.S. skier who won two silver medals...
...grown up completely." Some of her recent books, including The Beginning Place, Malafrena (1979) and Orsinian Tales (1976), have contained little or no conventional scifi, although she is not considering abandoning the form for good. She still feels challenged by its "total freedom of plot; there are no limits except those of imagination." That is certainly not true of science in the real world, as Le Guin was reminded last month when the Public Broadcasting Service carried a TV adaptation of her novel The Lathe of Heaven. A winter storm knocked out the power in much of Portland, leaving many...
...stroke in 1972, Durante had as much vitality off-stage as he did on. Throughout his life, he would stay up late with show business cronies, joking around. In a profession where rivalries tend to be fierce, he had no known enemies. Nor did he adopt Hollywood vices, except for an occasional visit to the track. A devout Catholic, Durante lived in a modest eight-room house and worked tirelessly to raise money for the Damon Runyon Fund for Cancer Research...