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Neither team dominated play in the first half. Harvard's top scorer Sue St. Louis mounted several drives into the Yale zone. The diesel-powered St. Louis amassed 19 goals and five assists on the season, but couldn't find daylight amidst the maze of eager Elis...
...really wanted to see the female boxing. But when I arrived I found out it was the last attraction of the evening. Johnson set up his P.A.s amidst odd mannequins and a tapedeck which backed up his vocals. The boxing ring was 20 feet in front of him, and the mingling rock press and refreshment bar was just beyond the ring...
...Amidst cries of "Long live Andorra!" many of the 8,000 natives of the landlocked principality in the Pyrenees converged upon their capital last week. The occasion: their country's 700th birthday. While the blue, yellow and red national flag waved from bunting-bedecked windows and balconies, citizens crowded into the ancient Plaza of the Prince of Benlloch to hail the arrival of Andorra's two sovereign Princes. It was their first meeting ever on Andorran soil, and a cordial though somewhat subdued salute was given Andorra's rulers by the local militia. They fired powder-loaded...
Brown spares us few television cliches. There is a boy becomes-a-man-amidst-the-stench-of-battle scene for each world war. The firemen's ball gets set on fire. The heroine dies jumping her horse, and other blase gems...
...Amidst all the fanfare over the upcoming dedication of the new Kennedy School Building and the praise being heaped on its Dean, Graham Allison. I want to put aside the accolades and relate to the university community a most disappointing incident involving the highly lauded Dean Allison...