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Unseeded Harvard sophomore Don Pompan will face one of the top college players in the country, University of Texas star Steve Denton, in the first round of the NCAA tennis tournament at Athens, Ga. today...
...Denton's hard serve is perhaps the best in the country, so Pompan should have his hands full. The courts at the University of Georgia have been resur-faced since last year, however, which should favor Pompan's quick, all-around game...
...decision, Lee did something of an about-face. At week's end, he predicted that the "outages"-jargon for when a generator is out of the power grid-would be of "very short duration." Certainly, he said, they would not last into the peak summer season. But Harold Denton, the NRC's reactor regulations chief, was more skeptical. Something of a hero in the nuclear field for his cool troubleshooting at Three Mile Island in the wake of March's accident, he insisted that all B & W pressurized water reactors were susceptible to the kind of failures...
...brushed off his warning of a "serious" design problem. Perhaps of greatest immediate import, officials conceded that it may take several more weeks, possibly months, to achieve a "cold shutdown" of the crippled reactor, meaning bringing it down to the minimum possible temperature. Said NRC Operations Boss Harold Denton: "I don't think we ought to commit ourselves to any more timetables?only safety...
...debate about the culpability-and venality&3151;of Met-Ed was just beginning. In its defense, the utility insisted that the problems with Unit 2 were all routine. Before the reactor could begin operating commercially it also had to be approved by the NRC. Added Denton: "We don't issue licenses to operate plants until our people tell us that all tests have been completed...