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...years ago, the athletic director at Julia Barash's high school in Monroe, N.Y., refused to let her try out for the school's varsity tennis team−an all-male squad. His shaky ground: state regulations say that girls just don't compete with boys. Julia appealed to the state education department. Advised by counsel that Julia would win a court case in straight sets, the department defaulted. She promptly became Monroe's top player and pulled the team out of the cellar into a tie for first place...
...effects once initial joshing wore off. Indeed, the sexes seemed to play extra hard to outdo each other. As a result, the state's board of regents is being asked to allow such integration all over the state, though not in football and other mauling sports. As for Julia, she is now a tennis star at Cornell−on the women's team...
...Julia Child, what storms you cook...
...backed by bass and drums. Once again, Phil Spector is listed as producer, but Lennon seems to have wisely restricted him to adding echo and nothing else, giving the whole album the sound of "Instant Karma." All the songs are intensely personal, some of them resembling the feeling of "Julia." (One cut. "Look at Me," uses almost the same melody.) More interesting, however, is that half the songs have some kind of political content, which implies that John may be ditching his simplistic "Give Peace a Chance" ideas...
...European, the recipes do back up Field's international pretensions. Among the best are a wizardly Mexican turkey mole, which may take longer to assemble than to cook, and an entire section on curry. In addition, there is a chocolate roll that is lighter than either of Julia's cakes and several quick cheese concoctions. They are all reasonably easy because, their inventor notes wryly, "I am not trying to make Arab bread with American all-purpose flour...