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Official Status. Publicly the Egyptians had to do something to refurbish their image as champions of Arab solidarity. To one-up their Syrian rivals, the Egyptian delegation at the U.N. called for an immediate emergency meeting of the Security Council last Wednesday to discuss "Israeli aggression" against Lebanon-with P.L.O. participation. The P.L.O. then forced the issue of their official status at the U.N. by refusing to participate under Procedural Rule 39, which would allow them to participate rather amorphously as "persons who can supply information" useful to the council. Instead, they asked to be admitted under Rule 37, which...
...curriculum is all business. "We start with the basics," she says, "positions and formations." Already her pupils are at ease with such knowing terms as flares and neutral zones. To help them one-up their friends, Mrs. Laurini tosses in such statistical tidbits as the average height and weight of defensive tackles in the league...
...wasn't nervous over the ball, but I never thought that I would sink it," Fred Sherman said last night of his 39.6 foot pu?? that gave him a one-up victory over M.I.T.'s Bob Armstrong...
Owen went all the way to the 18th hole before beating the Big Red's Peter Weinberg, one-up. One-down after the fifteenth hole, Owen nearly eagled the par-five 16th. He won the hole anyway with a birdie, and went on to take the 17th, and tie the 18th...
...Heisler, one of the two Crimson golfers who won both his matches, did it by the narrowest of margins. Columbia's Dan Basarich gave him the biggest scare, taking the match all the way to the 18th before losing one-up. Quaker Lee Burke wasn't much easier, falling on the 17th...