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...play of Peckham and Inman was the highlight of the team's two weekend matches; it was their come-from-behind victory in a doubles match at Pennsylvania that gave the Crimson a 5-4 win over the Quakers Friday. Trailing by one set when they learned that Penn had tied the match at 4-4, the Crimson duo pulled out the second set, 14-12. After transferring to an indoor court because of darkness, Peckham and Inman won the third set and the match...
...officially forthcoming last week. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, for one, reported that enough Soviet shipping is on the way to Cuba to remove "several thousand" Russians. That, of course, will leave several thousand others still in Cuba. The activities of those Russians, both military and civilian, were the highlight last week of a notable CBS-TV "Eye Witness" program...
...somewhat more successful. One aria, sung by Metropolitan Opera Soprano Judith Raskin, is lyrical and haunting; left alone in the corridor while her hus band, played by Baritone John Reardon, darts off on one of his searches, she sings I Shall Never, Never See My Home Again, the vocal highlight of the performance...
...great year in Harvard sports, but it was excellent, and more than a few thrills were experienced by local fans. In our judgment, the swimming team's one point victory over Yale was the highlight of the athletic year, and perhaps the finest performance by a Harvard team of any variety in several years...
Though it seemed hardly necessary, a new organization called the Let's Chew More Gum Association opened offices this month in Tokyo. The opening, attended by politicians, baseball stars and showfolk, went as smoothly as a cathedral service-which, in a way, it was. Highlight of the première was a special prayer intoned by a Shinto priest standing before a kind of altar to gamu. Excerpts...