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Preparing for races against top-ranked opponents such as Princeton, Brown and Wisconsin, Radcliffe is ready to fight like sharks for a top three finish which would ensure the Black and White of a ticket to Cincinatti for the Nationals...
...reason was that Slippery Rock, the defending national champion and far and away the best team in the east, was also in Harvard's pool. So its loss to Bucknell meant that the Crimson could earn a 1-2 record at best, which means a one-way ticket to the losers' bracket...
Homer A. Plessy, described in court papers as "of mixed descent, in the proportion of seven-eighths Caucasian and one-eighth African blood," bought himself a first-class ticket from New Orleans to Covington, Louisiana, and took a seat reserved for whites on the East Louisiana Railway. He was jailed for violating an exquisitely even-handed, race-neutral statute that forbade members of either race to occupy accommodations set aside for the other--with the exception of "nurses attending the children of the other race." Plessy insisted he was white, and when that failed, argued that criminal-court judge John...
...Gilbert, 42, an insurance consultant from Baltimore, Maryland, recently traveled the 48 miles to Dulles Airport in northern Virginia to take a ValuJet flight to Atlanta. "I live closer to Baltimore's BWI Airport, but this flight is $400 cheaper than the other carriers," says Gilbert. "My round trip ticket cost...
...Atlanta Games' Internet site for ticket sales www.atlanta.olympic.org has turned decidedly low-tech. Officials had said E-mail orders would be confirmed within 24 hours. Since the Website is not connected to a mainframe computer, however, many orders are being processed by overburdened phone operators. As a result, confirmation often takes two weeks or more. Things have been further confused because some worried customers have repeated their orders...