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...Jerry Greenberg returning to the line up at 150 pounds. Greenberg sat out the Yale meet with a bad knee...Both 118-lb. Mike Meade and 190-lb. Kelly Flynn are the only two original starters who will remain on the injured list. Steve Fabry will continue to fill in for Meade, and Bunning will remain at 190 pounds...
...hits are an odd throwback to an era of simple games and conventional contestants. Wheel of Fortune, in which players spin a giant wheel to reveal letters in a hidden phrase, is a variation on the old word game Hangman. At least three current imitators feature similar fill-in-the- blank word games. A number of other shows depend on question-answer quizzes, exemplified by the challenging Jeopardy!, now a success in syndication after two earlier versions aired...
Newspapers used to be content with printing what they knew. The New York Times, which has acres of space to fill, has lately been telling its readers what it doesn't know. It names the news sources it could not reach, to show how fairly it covers a story (a check by computer shows that in the past 14 months the Times told its readers 101 times that a news source "did not return telephone calls"). On occasion the paper also publishes a series of questions about stories in the news that it doesn't know the answer...
Rock 'n' roll never looked so good. Long renowned for her ability to fill a leotard, Raquel Welch has lately been stepping into the blue-suede shoes--and tight blue jeans--of such superstar rockers as Elvis Presley, Mick Jagger and Bruce Springsteen. As part of her touring nightclub act, Welch does a medley of tunes that span three musical gen- erations, from Heartbreak Hotel to Satisfaction to Born in the U.S.A. Says Welch: "I've always been a kind of mimic. I'm just doing now what I've done in the privacy of my own home. I really...
Considering the college's new drinking policy and the culinary experience of the Freshman Union, however, it may be more accurate to say the prospective freshmen have had their fill of nonalcoholic cider and salad bars...