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...submarines. The Navy is keeping its ships at Camel Station at highest readiness status, and there are frequent alerts. Some crews in fully armed planes are able to take off within five minutes. Others on 15-and 30-minute alerts wait in the ready room prepared to dash to their aircraft. On a typical day, each carrier's steam-propelled catapults launch 90 sorties. Some warplanes, such as the Mach 2.4 F-14 Tomcat, make combat runs, dropping practice bombs on targets towed by U.S. ships. Others, like the RF4 Phantom, fly reconnaissance missions. Confronting Task Force...
Despite URI sweeps of both the 60-yd. dash and the 220-yd. run, the Crimson posted some impressive individual victories and times in Saturday's meet...
...Salvo and McNulty contributed a couple of wins in the 55-meter dash and the 600 meters, but not until Dixon's victory in the 1000 did the Crimson go no top for good...
Whenever PBS produces its own dramatic programs, it tries to be all things to all its constituencies. There is almost always a dash of intellectual pretension (to please the grant-bestowing foundations), a splash of uplift (to humor the corporate sponsors) and a rustle of period costumes (to attract the BBC fans). The result is often tiresome television, but occasionally there is a glorious exception. Such is the case with American Short Story. Though this returning series satisfies all the dreary institutional demands of PBS, it also provides remarkably sophisticated entertainment...
Student-faculty sex is not exactly news. For the roving professor, female students are a vast pool of young, relatively inexperienced women who look at faculty members with respect and often a dash of awe. As one professor candidly admits, "We deal with young people when they are most physically beautiful, most open to new thought and experience. All the while we get older. It's quite a lure...