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...Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute varsity skaters from Troy, N.Y., descend on Boston Garden tonight in search of their second upset victory in the ECAC Division One Playoffs...
...occasional adobe huts and the surrounding protective adobe walls of the Aymara Indians, who have scratched out a living here for countless centuries. Soon the huts become more numerous, and further on there is a hint of the nearing metropolis in the frantic crowds of women and children who descend upon the bus at every stop trying to sell meager greasy pastries and bottles of sugary soda. The road continues on through the stark plateau...
...little rebuffs that showed how the President was keeping his public distance from his Vice President. At a White House dinner for Pakistani Prime Minister Ali Bhutto, the Agnews were swiftly ushered out of camera range into the East Room instead of waiting, as usual, for the Nixons to descend the curving staircase. When the Agnews joined the Nixons and the Bhuttos at the head table that night, the strain showed on Judy Agnew's usually smiling, round face...
...original Gallery staff, many of whom have left to found new imitations. Gallery's first editor, James L. Spurlock, a Playboy alumnus, is now at work on Touch, which he describes as "a combination of Cosmopolitan and Playboy"; 500,000 copies of the first issue are scheduled to descend on newsstands in late August. Ex-Gallery Associate Publisher Stephan L. Saunders left to found Genesis, the first issue of which appeared in June. Financed by Rocky Aoki, owner of a string of successful Japanese restaurants in the U.S., Genesis was primarily notable for offering charter readers two centerfold nudes...
...that his efforts brought Viet Nam from a time of mere leaping from one crisis to another to a point where long-range planning is possible. He is undiscouraged by the uneasy peace that now prevails: "I think that after a generation of war, one cannot expect peace to descend overnight. It will require time and patience." Thieu, he feels, faces four major tasks: refugee resettlement, war-damage reconstruction, economic development and ensuring greater effectiveness for his government...