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Several Crimson players made a strong showing in the Syracuse Invitational last weekend. Freshman Ericka Elmuts advanced to the finals of her flight and sophomore Kim Cooper teamed with junior Amy de Lone to take the first-flight doubles consolation title. The Cooper de Lone team is seeded third in the first flight this weekend...
Harvard's toughest loss of the day came in the quarterfinal round of first-flight doubles, as the duo of Amy deLone and Kim Cooper dropped a 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 decision to Tennessee's Alice Bende and Tracy Barton...
...astronauts had said all along they weretreating the mission as a test mission--a"shakedown flight," in the words of Covey--andthey quickly ran into first-flight problems. Awater evaporator that provides cooling to the shipduring the climb to space and return to Earth waspartly clogged with ice. And a device thatprovides electrial power to move an orbitalsteering engine was not working...
...Here), or have zip (I Enjoy Being a Girl), or lead to fun (Don't Marry Me). But it gets few assists from the lyrics, and the libretto gains nothing from its Joseph Fields brand of gag. Perhaps the right comparison for the show is not with first-flight Rodgers and Hammerstein but with second-best Rodgers and Hart. Such work might well be less smoothly professional than Flower Drum Song, but it was more individualized. If it sagged, it would suddenly soar; if there was nothing notable for the nightingale, there was something delightful for the mockingbird...
...Britain, the overvalued pound made touring comparatively expensive. In London's first-flight Dorchester Hotel, for example, a single room with bath cost $11 a night. Britain's rationing system was also stricter than on the Continent, but the meals, plain though they might be, were reasonably priced (the government had pegged them at $1). In the provinces, food was better, and hotel prices (about $4 a night) lower. Britain's best lures: dollar tourists could buy clothes and get enough gasoline to drive 600 miles in two weeks, 1,000 in four...