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...with a full-fledged coach, guaranteed daily practices, (including double sessions during freshman week) and the drawing power of varsity status, the Crimson will surely improve its calibre of play and position in the Ivy standings. "We've been at a distinct disadvantage in the past playing against teams with much larger budgets and extended seasons," said senior Marlene Schoofs, adding, "I think we'll surprise everyone this year. I'm very optimistic...
...mind a brightly specific montage of players and plays accumulated over the years, recombines them in purely speculative fantasy: "Ruth bats against Sandy Koufax or Sam McDowell ... Hubbell pitches to Ted Williams." Angell has written about one of the mysteries of baseball's attraction: "Its vividness, the absolutely distinct inner vision we have of that hitter, that eager base runner, of however long ago." No other sport, he remarks, "yields these permanent interior pictures, these ancient and precise excitements. Baseball is intensely remembered because it is so intensely watched...
Unlike the U.S. shuttle, each rocket can be used only once. But Ariane has one distinct advantage. Aided by the boost it gets from launch near the equator (where the earth's surface velocity is greater than at higher latitudes either north or south), it can carry payloads to an ideal parking place, 22,300 miles above the equator, in what is called geosynchronous orbit. At that distance, satellites remain fixed over one spot on the ground, permanently in line of sight of antennas. The U.S. shuttle can reach a maximum altitude of only 690 miles, and additional boosters...
Last week's letter from the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee to its Polish counterpart was a graphic and forbidding message, couched in the distinct language of Communist doublespeak. To understand the Soviets' criticisms and quarrels with Poland's "socialist renewal," opposite words must, in the fashion of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, be substituted: for "free and independent," read subservient; for "counterrevolution" read reform and democratization; and for "protection of the socialist commonwealth" read intervention by Warsaw Pact forces. Excerpts from the letter, as translated by the New York Times...
Other developments have been greeted with less glee by the city fathers, though. The sharpest worries have been over the rapid growth in condominiums, usually by the conversion of scarce rental apartments. In early winter, it seemed the anticondo forces had gained a distinct upper hand, when the State Supreme Court upheld an ordinance effectively barring condominium conversion. Attempts to expand the scope of the law even farther, though, met stiff opposition this spring, and opponents of condo restrictions and rent controls appear to be gearing up for a major offensive in the November city elections...