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FAMILY is HONORED. The posters are awarded to parents whose sons pass the stiff medical and political examinations -90% of applicants fail-for entry into the all-volunteer, 3,000,000-man People's Liberation Army...
Harvard's varsity racquetmen completed the first half of their squash season yesterday with a 9-0 sweep at Amherst. The Crimson will now carry an undefeated record against stiff competition in the next three weekends...
...team lets down too early against MIT they may be in trouble because the Engineers are, in Marion's opinion, the second best fencing team in New England--behind Harvard. "They are stiff and tough," Marion said, "and have a good foil and epee team...
...first marriage was annulled; his second wife died in a car crash in 1959, and he divorced his third wife, a London model, in 1965. Four years ago, Irving married Edith Sommer, a Swiss divorcee whose first husband, she says, was a German businessman and something of a "stiff...
...scalp-tingling power. The gorgeous A Real Slow Drag ended the opera with a ceremonious eroticism that nearly matched Joplin's music. Alpha Floyd, in the title role of a foundling whose book learning propels her into civic leadership, produced a bright, reedy soprano but had stiff presence. Simon Estes, as Treemonisha's father Ned, draped Joplin's curvaceous melodies in rolling voluminous sound. But with surprisingly lackluster support from Conductor Robert Shaw, Treemonisha's effect was blander than the score deserved...