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...Radcliffe varsity crew will be seeking its second straight victory of the young season as it takes on the University of Massachusetts in a race on the Charles River Basin today. The junior varsity race is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. with the varsity set to get off the stake boats...
...rest are portraits of himself and his friends: George Dyer, Isabel Rawsthorne, the artist Lucian Freud. "Who," Bacon once half-jokingly asked, "can I tear to pieces if not my friends?" Triptych, May-June 1973, with its deliquescent knot of white flesh hunched on a toilet, spewing into a basin and casting a melodramatic bat's shadow on the floor, is an elegy for George Dyer, who committed suicide in a Paris hotel room...
...hospital and convalescing at his Arlington, Va., apartment last week, an apparently lonely man. Annabella Battistella, 38, alias Fanne Foxe, was in Connecticut meeting with Author Robin Moore (The Green Berets, The Happy Hooker), who may write an authorized biography of the Washington Tidal Basin Bombshell. "There is some pressure," said Moore, "as apparently Gore Vidal is writing an unauthorized biography," a statement denied by Vidal's publisher. In his preliminary research, Moore has been impressed by the devotion of Wilbur and Anna to each other. "She really does love him, and she wants to marry...
...result of the national drive for greater energy independence, the Permian Basin is booming again. Now rising above the West Texas city of Midland (pop. 63,000), which serves as the white-collar headquarters town for the oil companies operating in the area, are a multimillion-dollar 14-story office tower and that symbol of a successful city, a Hilton hotel. A half-hour's drive away is Midland's twin city, Odessa, a blue-collar town built around a sprawl of refineries and oil-well service and supply firms. There the boom is reflected...
President Ford's skiing endeavors had produced no bone-breaking, side-splitting anecdotes and the excitement of the Tidal Basin affair had pretty well ebbed, so when the National Collegiate Athletic Association descended on Washington recently for its annual convention the conversation of the Capital turned to jock talk...