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Stanley teamed up with Paul Palandjian to bump Donovan and Amin Lourey, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 in B-flight doubles action...
...impulse that inspired it remains. In Bald Mountain, Mussorgsky's music is suddenly interrupted by a prolonged cadenza of what can only be called socialist jazz jungle drumming. Pairs of pig-snouted satyrs and lissome succubi writhe lustily as syncopated kettledrums accompany an orgy of things that go bump and grind in the night. The outburst is as unexpected as it is finally gratuitous. But after an evening of demure wholesomeness, it makes a welcome, rowdy change...
...those with stage fright, a seasoned veteran at the game offered a few hints about how to behave in front of the cameras. "Learn your lines," advised Ronald Reagan at a White House breakfast for Senators last week. "Don't bump into the furniture. And in the kissing scenes, keep your mouth closed...
...fries da, Big Mac nyet). And in Washington she toured the national monuments. The point of her 13-day visit was to bring a message of world peace to U.S. children and adults alike, so Katya was more than happy when during her White House tour she happened to bump into the nation's top grownup on his way to work in the Oval Office. "Our children, children anywhere, cannot live happily while there are nuclear weapons on earth," she told the Commander in Chief, who said that ending the threat of nuclear war would make him happy too. Nevertheless...
...merit-based system also might be unfair to students who, recovering from a freshmen slump, brought their grades up during their upperclass years. A built-in "Horatio Alger clause" would clearly be in order--entitling those with rising grade point averages to bump slumping students from their rooms...