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...green poles with orange Day-Glo baskets--slithered through the 550-foot course with the best times for each of the two runs, and defeated runnerup David Dodge of the University of Vermont by over a second. Ben Steele, star of Carter's intercollegiate team, remained off the peak he reached winning EIS championships three weeks ago at Middlebury and finished third. Dodge finished fourth in the NCAA slalom ten days ago at Middlebury...
...sjare election" that followed the student-worker demonstrations of 1968, the Gaullists and their allies hit their peak, with 46% of the vote and 359 Assembly seats. Under more "normal" conditions in the last regular election of 1967, they won 43% of the vote and a one-seat majority...
Steven Bruch does much more. He admirably achieves the requisite pain and humor in his exceedingly difficult role as Ionesco's anti-hero, Beranger, though his peak intensity arrives too soon. Midway through the play, he has taken the pitch about as high as he can and after that he stagnates, transforming humorous lines into wails of sadness...
...Americans' proposal to charge $230 in the off season and $299 during June, July and August for the same service. So unless some compromise is found, the deadlock could lead to a continuation of present fares (minimum price: $313 round trip for 22 to 45 days in peak season, with no advance reservation) or even a rate war after the current international agreement on ticket prices runs out on March...
...scheduled lines' hopes of slowing or stopping a drain of passengers to the cut-rate charter flights offered by the nonscheduled carriers. Last week one such line was advertising two-to-four-week round-trip fares between New York and London for as little as $179 in peak season. The scheduled lines had hoped that their new advance-fare service would enable them to come closer to meeting those prices, while also allowing them to plan operations so that they could cut costs by flying fully loaded planes. But weeks of effort by U.S. and European government negotiators...