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Chris Queen flung farthest for a discus first with a toss of 146' 5", and Almhad Kayali took similar honors in the triple jump, Embree, Queen and Kayali were responsible for three of the team's five wins...
...Victorian age, such as cleaning up salty language (Pinafore), Walter Pater-style aestheticism (Patience), and the House of Lords (Iolanthe). The Mikado, like some of Shakespearian and Johnsonian comedy, is about the impossibility and immorality of repressing the passions. It is the play in which Gilbert moves farthest away from the Victorian center he usually represented and comes closest to criticizing society as well as ridiculing social follies. And in an artistic sense, The Mikado is among the most selfaware and sophisticated of Gilbert and Sullivan's works. "The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring," for example, parodies the basic...
...farthest-out tournament of all may some day take place in space. Parker has already built two astronaut sets with aluminum houses and hotels and noncombustible paper supplied by NASA. The sets could accompany the closely confined and womanless crew the U.S. may send on a two-year mission to Mars before the end of the century. That would enable the Mars astronauts to engage in the longest-established, permanent floating space game in history. Says Bluffton College Psychology Professor (and Monopoly Fan) William J. Beausay: "All men have to have a strong motivator to compensate for loss...
...Atomic Scientists has recorded the imminence of a nuclear holocaust with a "doomsday clock" on its cover. Two years ago, after the U.S. and U.S.S.R. signed their first nuclear arms limitation pact, the Bulletin's editors set back the clock to twelve minutes to midnight-the farthest it has ever been from that apocalyptic hour. Now the editors are no longer so optimistic. In the September issue, the clock's hands will be pushed forward to nine minutes before midnight. The editors cite a number of reasons for their new pessimism: the lack of a further arms agreement...
...quixotic ventures that a young business man could dream up, the farthest-out would seem to be making automobiles. It has been 28 years since an American started an auto-manufacturing business from scratch - and that was a disastrous flop for Henry Kaiser. So meet Don Quixote - in the form of flamboyant Malcolm Bricklin, 35, a Phoenix, Ariz., resident who wears studded denims and bedecks himself with silver-and-turquoise jewelry...