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...novel begins, Raul sits in a beanery in The Bronx, near the Cabot School, wrapped in a satisfying combination of doom and glory. He is preparing to cut classes for the tenth straight day. Fascinated classmates crowd round to be recognized or snubbed, as black-princely honor requires. Expertly-he is practiced at this-Raul builds his mood from their reactions. He must have theater. Alec, a worldly friend, asks why Raul has dressed in black. "I'm in mourning for my life," he replies. "Who is that from?" asks Alec, a bit off balance. "Chekhov," says Raul...
...Radcliffe swimming team took the tenth annual Radcliffe Invitational on Saturday, winning nine first places in thirteen events. For the first time, Radcliffe hosted its five opponents...
ECONOMIC statistics cannot be predicted to the last billion dollars or tenth of a percentage point -and indeed it has not been unknown for some Government forecasts of the value of national production to be off by $15 billion. For 1971, TIME'S Board of Economists came closer than most seers. Its members' predictions of gross national product averaged $1,049.2 billion, and they forecast that unemployment would peak at 6% to 6.2%. The actual figures: around $1,050 billion and 6.2%. Now the economists are putting their numbers on the record for this year. Their forecasts...
...best knockout record (47 in 69 bouts) in welterweight history. He and Lewis shared the bill with World Bantamweight Champion Rubén ("Mister K.O.") Olivares and Jesús ("Little Poison") Pimentel, who staged a fast and furious slugfest before Olivares beat Pimentel into submission in the tenth round, scoring his 63rd knockout in 69 fights. Both men are typical of the host of hungry little fighters, most of them from Latin America and Asia, who are restoring some of the lost excitement to boxing from the bottom up. Says one Los Angeles fan of the mighty mites...
WITH an emphatic beat on a giant ceremonial drum, Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere launched a nationwide celebration marking his East African country's tenth anniversary of independence from Britain. On hand for the twelve days of merrymaking were the Presidents of four neighboring states. So were some 80 former colonial civil servants whom Nyerere brought from London aboard a chartered VC10-in keeping with a promise he had made in 1961 -to see what the country had accomplished in its first decade of iihurii (freedom). Amused locals promptly nicknamed the East African Airways jetliner the "Blimps...