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...Harvard tennis team rebounded from its disappointment at Penn last weekend to crush a strong Williams team, 7-2, on the home clay yesterday. Williams had suffered a hair's breadth 5-4 defeat to a powerful Yale team on Tuesday...
...knew existed but had never seen in print, is perhaps his most daring work. Its publication for the first time in Russia is part of a literary rebellion that is sweeping through Soviet letters. The Kremlin is watching in dismay, but has so far tried to contain rather than crush the new independence...
Thousands of cases have been pending in local and federal district courts for years. In the crush, prosecutors and magistrates are tempted to bypass the judicial process by dismissing many cases wholesale. Snowed under by the work load, harried judges seldom have the time to learn what they should about the man in the dock. Sentences are handed down to fit the crime, not the defendant...
...Williams designed a paper kiosk for art games or food stands. Hacker's sketches show balloons holding up the crests on the paper big tops which will stretch smack down the middle of Boston's Newbury St. on May, 7. The tents are supposedly strong enough to withstand the crush of art-lovers...
...hardly more stable but decidedly more appealing. In Rome, when a Soviet reporter jeered that Clay's new fame would not buy him a seat in any Louisville restaurant, Cassius retorted: "At least I ain't fighting alligators and living in a mud hut!" He had a crush on Olympic Sprinter Wilma Rudolph, who didn't respond. In his strait-laced fashion, he married a cocktail waitress and tried to get her to adopt Muslim ways, but it didn't take; he charged in his divorce suit last year that her slacks were too tight...