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...Harvard quintet. The Crimson scored one of its greatest victories in history on that memorable night by beating Princeton, 88 to 82. But no repeat last year's amazing upset, or even to eke out one victory during this four-game stretch, would require providential intervention that would astound a Jonathan Edwards...
...Rose, the highly nervous woman who hides from her past and herself in a cold but otherwise fairly comfortable room. Her jerky gestures--especially her habit of pulling her sweater around her defensively--were convincing. But her rheumatism and cracking voice appeared and disappeared with a rapidity which would astound modern science. Generally amusing as the pathetic landlord Mr. Kidd, Elliot Cohen occasionally descended to unnecessary bathos...
...giant step into space: Project Apollo, which aims at putting three Americans on the moon. He considers the U.S. space effort the tortoise to Russia's hare-but feels that the tortoise will soon pass the hare. Says he: "When we do pass him, I think we will astound even ourselves at what we can accomplish...
Preparing for her new role, Jackie has been reading every available book on the White House, is "riveted" by the multitudes of facts that are giving her a connoisseur's knowledge of the place. The shortcomings of the household budget astound her ("It's stone broke, this White House"). She hotly denies the story that she will hang modern paintings everywhere: "The White House is an 18th and 19th century house, and should be kept as a period house. Whatever one does, one does gradually, to make a house a more lived-in house, with beautiful things...
...NOON--Modern art never ceases to amaze, intrigue, and astound, whether comprehensible or not. Since it's usually not, Fine Arts 170 is a good last chapter to the mystery...