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Jiangsu's impotence wasn't helped by its travel plans. The team had crossed the continent in less than a week and a half, and last night's exhibition was the squad's ninth game in 11 days. Not only were the Chinese on their last legs, they were on the second-to-last leg of their trip. They close out their American tour tomorrow at Hofstra University in New York...
...Administration gathered to toast the general's 92nd birthday and the 30th anniversary of his election as President. Even some of those who had been closest to Ike were surprised to hear a former Harvard professor, William B. Ewald, report that Eisenhower had come from oblivion to ninth place on the list of great Presidents compiled by historians. "The more I think about it," said Roemer McPhee, who was a young lawyer in Ike's White House, "the more I believe that President Eisenhower's indispensable attribute was his restraint. He never used too much...
...flight which may be the shuttle's first round-trip voyage--from Cape Canaveral, Fla. and back again. With Brewster finally having his day in orbit after five years in the space program, relatives and friends look to the shuttle with pride and excitement. The overall purpose of the ninth mission will to them to be irrelevant. However, this flight--along with the others, including this week's--will likely neither prove relevant nor exciting to others, reflecting a substantive change in the way America looks at its journeys into space...
When they won the third set, it seemed as sure a sign of victory as striking out the last batter in the top of the ninth But UConn came back again as the spikers slacked off. The Huskies took the next set, 15-9, and forced the match to a fifth deciding...
...result was an impressive ninth-place finish, and a 2:17:59, ranking Schlesinger in the elite group of sub 2:20 marathoners...