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...finals of the doubles was all Princeton with the number one team of Louise Gengler and Mo Curran emerging victorious. The finals of the singles competition, though, was all Yale as the top-seeded Yalie Lisa Rosenblum defeated the second seed for the Elis, Sue Graham. To reach the finals. Graham had to beat the highly regarded number one for Princeton, Linda Rice...
...greening of America, homestyle, started in earnest early last spring when produce prices went as high as an elephant's eye. In protest, city dwellers and exurbanites alike turned lawns into miniature back forties, filled patios with planters (often made with old washtubs or auto tires), and deluged seed companies with orders. Manufacturers of fertilizer and tools chalked up record sales, and many are predicting even headier harvests in 1975. So many green-thumbers took to canning and freezing their surplus vegetables last year that jars and lids were all but impossible to find...
...sauce all winter. A 15-ft. row of tomato plants can produce up to 100 Ibs. per season at a saving, says Fell, of at least $33. Squash, beans, peas and lettuce will also reward the diligent gardener with bountiful crops. This year, for the fashionable or the finicky, seed-growers are even offering blue potatoes, yellow melons, purple beans and yellow beets...
...Broadway houses would be replaced by office buildings but for the kind of chance known as "actor's luck"; the theater slump had coincided with the office-building slump. Since then, the organization has been among the leaders in trying to revitalize theater, pouring more than $2 million seed money into nonprofit companies and urging greater cooperation between all kinds of theater...
...which now stands at 8%, v. 14.4% only four months ago. The main worry is that if the recovery fails to reduce the disastrous unemployment rate, now at 8.7%, Congress will institute new spending programs, which in turn would fuel a resumption of inflation. "We have literally sown the seed for the upturn," says Murray Weidenbaum, a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. "Let's not flood it with more federal spending...