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...mile version brought more of the same Harvard freshman Cliff Sheeham, who had already won the mile and finished second in the 1000, ran a strong anchor leg but fell short by that fateful three tenths of a second...
...finally paid off for Maureen Gildea. Coach Vicki Hays expects her to swim in the league championships next weekend. It's been a long, hard road back. But Maureen Gildea is no stranger to hard work, nor is she a stranger to long roads. When the Navy brat weighs anchor at the Ivies next weekend with a working knee, she can claim to have won her greatest victory...
Around the pontoon, boats chug and cruise?police boats, water taxis, sampans piloted by women in straw hats, ferries, tugs, dredges, schooners. Freighters with exotic names lie at anchor. In the background, the office buildings of Hong Kong Island stand pressed against Victoria Peak. Trinh Thi Nuong, 8, gazes at the city in open wonder. She is told that she looks lovely...
...voices: William Faulkner rushing over the magnificent rhythms of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in a high, fast drawl; Robert Lowell stridently brave in poems about his mental illness; Ernest Hemingway growling Across the River and into the Trees like a Midwestern newsman with too many years at the anchor desk; and John Dos Passes lending The Forty-Second Parallel a hoarse intensity. Like some book publishers, Caedmon has noticed a surprising interest in the short story. Among its new bestsellers are Eudora Welly's warm rendition of Powerhouse and John Cheever's wry, precise delivery...
Bonding is mainly used to rebuild chipped, broken or irregularly shaped teeth, to close gaps and to improve the look of teeth permanently discolored by smoking, foods or drugs. Capping can camouflage the same conditions, but bonding can also anchor metal bridges containing replacements for missing teeth or orthodontic braces that use plastic brackets in place of metal bands. Capping is generally avoided in the case of children because the tooth is not fully formed. Bonding has no such problem. Says Berman: "Children are always falling down and breaking their teeth. Bonding is an absolute godsend...