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...enters the Beanpot with a 7-4 mark, the only winning squad in the tourney despite the absence of 6'7" center Mark van Landenham, who is out with a broken ankle. The Huskies' workhorse is 6'2" All-American guard John Clark. Winless B.U. has probably faced the stiffest competition this season. The squad's southern road swing turned into a debacle as Mercer, Citadel, Rollins and Southern Florida successively lashed the Terriers...
...INTERVIEW begins rather inauspiciously, with Orr asking in the stiffest of BBC manners, "Sylvia"--pause--"what started you writing poetry?" But Plath soon takes control of the situation, her conversational voice a little tamer than her reading voice but her imperious, arrogant manner just as fascinating and repellent. She sounds much older than 30 somehow, as if she had reached the last of the nine lives she endows herself with in "Lady Lazarus...
This season City Ballet confronts its stiffest artistic challenge ever. During the last three weekends of May, Hommage a Ravel, a centenary celebration of the French composer's birth, will feature a festival of 16 new ballets against a vast fresco of Ravel music. "In ballet there has to be something new every season," Balanchine explains calmly. "Also, Ravel was a Basque and all the Basques dance." Because the company cannot afford to close down even for a week, the new dances must be created and rehearsed while the company continues to perform the 36 ballets now in repertory...
Peter Huntsmen's lightweight eight will probably face the stiffest challenge of the morning from a very experienced Terrier shell which outsplashed the 'Cliffe lights last year by a substantial margin...
While sentences of up to 25 years could have been given by Sirica, the terms of 2% to eight years were the stiffest yet accorded anyone who participated in the scandal, except for the actual Watergate burglars. The sentences preclude any parole before the 2½ years are served, although all four will have the right to seek a reduction in sentence. Such motions by some of the confessed conspirators who testified against the four, including John Dean, Jeb Stuart Magruder and Herbert Kalmbach, led to their early release by Sirica. But he is not expected to feel similar sympathy...