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Harvard Co-Captain Keith Webster continued his success from three-point territory, getting all three of his field goals from beyond the NCAA's 19-ft., 9-in. arc en route to a 15-point performance...
...families are in luck: three ABC books offer a bright amalgam of sophistication and simplicity. In Pigs from A to Z (Houghton Mifflin; $15.95), Arthur Geisert's suite of copper etchings follows siblings with curly tails and mischievous minds as they construct a wolfproof tree house by the letters. En route, the illustrator-author ingeniously employs words that describe his book (eerie, ideal, spectacular) and performs the hardest task in children's literature: enlightening with surprises...
...reform. On April 5, 1976, students swelled the ranks of the 100,000 demonstrators who massed in Peking's Tiananmen Square to protest the removal by Maoist radicals of thousands of wreaths that had been placed at the Monument to the People's Heroes in memory of Premier Chou En-lai, who had died the previous January. The protesters obliquely attacked Mao and waved banners declaring support for Deng Xiaoping, then senior Deputy Premier. The demonstration quickly turned violent and was suppressed by authorities, who pronounced it "counterrevolutionary." The incident marked the beginning of the end for Mao's Gang...
...cereals to ward off cancer, and dress in the fashions of the times, which may seem starchy to you but in fact have never been looser. They proceed then to offices populated with machines designed to give them back the free time they have nearly forgotten how to use. En route they pass some people with telephones in their cars, dealing with those they cannot reach because of traffic jams. Some others they pass make homes out of shopping carts, speak the language of the mad, and stare at their own loneliness with disbelief...
...while the Crimson gains one front-court stalwart, it loses another--at least for a while. Sophomore forward-guard Neil Phillips raised eyebrows in his freshman campaign by leading the Crimson in rebounding and minutes played and finishing second in scoring en route to garnering All-Ivy honorable mention recognition...