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Varsity foil and sabre fencers begin competing in the first round of the intrasquad Breed fencing tournament at 7 p.m. tonight in the I.A.B...
...noted critic's articles in Literaturnaya Gazeta may get a wholly false impression of his talents. Of one bottom-drawer writer, a Soviet official recently exclaimed: "He's much, much better than his work!" On the other hand, the real Abram Tertz could well be that breed of writer known in the underground as an "internal émigré"-a man who produces only for the drawer or for a select circle of trusted intimates who can read his hand-copied manuscripts in secrecy and delight...
...small consolation to the water-short U.S. Northeast, but game ducks have long been more parched than people. For five years the great prairies of the central U.S. and Canada have had subnormal rainfall-not bad enough to bother humans but plenty bad for ducks. Thousands of breeding marshes and potholes turned to mud, then dust. That meant that for every 100 ducks that flew north to breed in the spring, only 80 came back through U.S. flyways in the fall. Hatchings were a little better this year but still far below normal times when 170 ducks return south...
...these rollicking journeys lay a new, American style of community, guided by a new, American breed of businessman, the booster, who promoted construction of railroads, saw to the piping of water, digging of sewers, building of schools, laying out of sidewalks, streets and parks. Boosters also founded the pioneer newspapers, in many cases little more than advertising broadsides and forums for the communal chauvinists...
Whatever the man might have been called behind his back, to his face he was more properly addressed as "Mr. Ambassador," and in Affairs at State, retired U.S. Diplomat Henry Serrano Villard, 65, describes him and his breed with an insider's sympathy and savvy. He is admirably equipped for the job. A great-grandson of Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, Villard joined the Foreign Service in 1928 after graduation from Harvard and a brief try at teaching and journalism, spent the next 34 years in outposts from Tripoli and Teheran to Rio and Oslo as the U.S. inexorably enlarged...