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Equipped with setters, spikers, and diggers, the women's volleyball program resembles a prospector on a life-long search for precious metals. The Crimson first struck gold last May when the Standing Committee on Athletics approved the squad's proposal for varsity (Level II) status and concomitant funding...
This season in Adair County has been a ballet of breathtaking intricacy, timing and beauty. In late May and early June, when the plowed land lay naked and vulnerable, there were no pelting rains to rip out seed and carry off precious topsoil. Then, every week with uncanny regularity, gentle showers brushed the new shoots. The temperature never went over 100° F, and every evening cool air formed in the swales and spread protectively over the young plants. The moisture choked the grasshopper hatch. Tornadoes and hail, which can claw the land raw in seconds, never materialized...
...moderates in the P.L.O. acknowledge that Israel is there to stay, but recognition will only be the ultimate step. "I am not giving away my cards in vain, for nothing," he said in a recent interview. "I know I have a little card, but it is the most precious card in the play, the trump card...
...feed grains. President Leonid Brezhnev is unwilling to risk a repetition of the demonstrations over food shortages that shook Nikita Khrushchev in 1962, when Russian workers painted USE KHRUSHCHEV FOR SAUSAGE MEAT on factory walls. To avoid reducing supplies to minimal levels, the Soviet leaders are expected to spend precious dollars and other hard currency on importing about 40 million metric tons of grain this year...
...central to his concerns and his demands. Asked about his grueling 18 months making Altered States, he replies: "Have you ever been beaten up on the street? Well, working on a film set is easier." But he lavishes praise on Larry Kasdan, who, like Marshall Mason, offers actors that precious directorial commodity: trust. After Altered States, Eyewitness and Body Heat, Hurt may be said to have mastered the craft. But he won't say it. "I respect what people have told me," he says. "If I make it to 40, 1 might be a good actor. With these three...