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...goal spoiled Brown Coach Cliff Stevenson's bid for his 300th career victory in his final game...
...days later, a French archaeologist guides Auel through Laugerie Haute, a vast excavation site under a cliff. She asks for details about how hearths were spaced, seeking hints on how families may have guarded their privacy. "This will be Jondalar's apartment building," she says. At Font-de-Gaume, a grotto of magnificent prehistoric artwork, she examines a painting of a wolf: "I have a feeling this will be Ayla's cave." It fits, since the adventurer travels with a wolf, albeit one she has trained to behave uncannily like a golden retriever...
...heroines, Fanny, Mary and Alexandra, prove to be fearless, feminine and fearlessly feminist. In an argument over whether one should wear trousers while scaling the face of a "vertiginous" cliff, Mary remarks tersely (and comically): "Alexandra, the civilizing mission of Woman is to reduce the amount of masculinity in the world. Not add to it by wearing trousers." Their careless courage makes them endearing and often comic...
Thus for the fourth time in five years Washington had failed to produce a budget by its own, self-imposed deadline. All concerned concede that Washington-style budgetmaking is a disgrace. Ideas for rationalizing the process, to curb both spending mania and cliff-hanging melodrama, have been as numerous as attempts to cure the common cold -- and just as ineffectual...
...junior hooker Cliff Lazenby also coppedpersonal honors, being named man of the match byboth sides...