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...stunning upset did occur in the open singles division--in which players compete individually for the National Amateur Championionsip--as Harvard's Kenton Jernigan, an overwhelming favorite to win the title, was knocked off in the final by Hugh Lavossier of Yale...
...potentially hazardous failures that could lead to a catastrophic loss of a shuttle, failure of a solid rocket booster was the most likely to occur, according to the Air Force report...
...there still are a few--like to view Gramm-Rudman as nothing more than a device for applying pressure. As they see it, when the pressure gets high enough a few months from now--meaning when enough special- interest groups rise in rebellion against the threatened cuts--there will occur, as if by magic, what former Budget Director David Stockman used to call "the big fix." This comes when everybody reluctantly agrees to both some budget cuts and some tax increases. One formula being mentioned is known as 20-20-20, meaning $20 billion in new taxes and $20 billion...
There had been widespread apprehension that the death sentences would spark riots among Sikh extremists, but that did not occur. There was also no violence last week after a Pakistani court gave death sentences to three Sikhs convicted of hijacking an Indian airliner...
...hawkish eyes of their supervisors in order to watch Casablanca on their telescreens. Although these people are serving under a brutal system, they are nonetheless living creatures, unlike the automatons of Orwell's novel. There is even a resistance movement, evidencing itself in a variety of sudden explosions, which occur so often that they are hardly noticed...