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...also participated in the Class A tournament, but couldn't quite meet the magic. Boyum, fighting an injured wrist and pulled muscle, lost to Princeton's Tom Shepherd in the round of 16. Boyum defeated Shepherd in the team's match last weekend, but was unable to repeat the feat in Annapolis...
...were neglecting him, he courted Stalin and threatened to send French forces to the Soviet front. Shut out of the planning for Dday, he retaliated by creating his own civil administration for liberated France. In the end, the general extracted just about everything he wanted from the Allies, a feat that won him the enmity of F.D.R. and the grudging admiration of Churchill. When someone suggested that De Gaulle was un grand homme, Churchill sputtered for many colleagues, "A great man? Why, he's selfish, he's arrogant, he thinks he's the center of the universe...
...there, but finding it is no mean feat. This is because no one knows where to put it. Some record stores keep it in the folk or rock sections, since putting it under "classical" would cause an uproar. Others simply put it in the catch all: jazz...
...long time, but 1902 to 1984 is a lot longer. Yale won the first Ivy League men's basketball championship 82 years ago. It is a feat Harvard has yet to match. Until this year...
...Angeles, circled the globe in 45 hr. 32 min. 53 sec., setting a new record for all classes of civilian aircraft. The 23,340-mile trip in a Gulfstream III, which began and ended in Washington, included stops in Moscow, Peking, Tokyo and London. Says Knapp of her aerial feat: "It's the most exhilarating thing I've ever done. It's like winning the Indianapolis 500 or the triathlon...