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...Austin, Texas...
When U.S. planes bombed Cambodia in 1970, Mary Walsh angrily stalked out of the University of Texas at Austin and worked at a string of odd jobs. Now 25 and the retiring editor of the Daily Texan, she speaks of her radical past as of a different era. "I've really calmed down and seen the logic of the middle ground," she says. "I'm just not ready to shout rhetoric any more at the cue of a red or black flag." Walsh is flying to Italy in August for a ten-month internship with the Rome Daily...
...Marjorie Senterfitt Austin, Texas...
Olga and Masha urge Irina to accept a proposal of marriage from an oddly self-mocking anti-hero named Baron Tusenbach (Austin Pendleton). Though Irina does not love him, she does deeply respect him and reluctantly agrees. But Irina is besieged by another suitor, a man as menacing as a bayonet thrust, Staff Captain Solyony (Rene Au-berjonois), who is romantically desperate for her love. Solyony challenges the baron to a duel, and all dreams end with a pistol shot...
Died. Wilmer Allison, 72, top-ranked tennis player in the U.S. in 1934 and '35 and longtime University of Texas coach; of an apparent heart attack; in Austin, Texas. A spectacularly aggressive player, Allison starred on the U.S. Davis Cup team for seven years and won the Wimbledon doubles competition with Partner John...