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...first NCAA tournament game ever was way back on Friday night, a 93-68 blowout over Western Kentucky. That was Western Kentucky--a noble team, to be sure, but the accent is on the Western. This was the U of K, the fearsome Wildcats, the squad with the longest tradition of quality basketball in the country. UCLA is a come-laiely compared to the Blue and White...
Victories over Cornell and Brown in the consolation rounds of the Ivy tournament at Dartmouth this weekend gave the Harvard women's basketball team its longest, or, "winning streak" of the season...
...game winning streak--nothing to write home to Ma about, right? Well consider that the hoopsters' longest string of victories before this weekend could be counted on one hand by someone missing four fingers, and two straight wins seems like something they can be proud...
...most abstract painting in the '60s was about, although the fact was concealed as embarrassing. Now the impulse is out of the closet, which is a relief-although it seems not to have produced any genuinely major painting. The best of the peintre-décorateurs, and the longest at it, is Robert Zakanitch, 45 represented at the Whitney with a lavish and seductive canvas of two swans, heraldically conjoined at the heads, floating on a gray-green field of water and creamy lilies. But younger painters tend to settle for something lighter, stylish in a glitzy...
...Times article, surely the longest correction ever published in the prestigious paper, was commissioned by Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal at Hersh's suggestion. Says Rosenthal: "Sy called me and said that he had come across new information that indicated that some of the things we had written about Korry were wrong. My God, if we were wrong in any way I would want to correct it. I asked him to write it for the Times." Rosenthal felt the Times had a particular responsibility to correct the record. Says...