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Today's artisans can trim metal to within one ten-thousandth of an inch, using mechanical cuts more precise than the strokes of the finest brain surgeon. During a grueling four-year apprenticeship in vocational classrooms and on the shop floor, the toolmaker absorbs the principles of solid geometry and learns to think in three dimensions. He is expected to read labyrinthine blueprints as well as be aware of the exact levels of heat and pressure that will cause various metals to buckle and break...
...bang show out of it. So does Carl Chase, who plays Williams. He does not look like Hank; he does not sound much like him. But through craft or luck or force of will, he becomes Williams. The competition is tough, but Chase is giving what may be the finest, fiercest performance on the London stage this summer...
...House Committee chairman last spring, she ran a meeting at which three quarters of the House, hurt and angry about the House's No-Talent Show (which had turned into an insult barrage), showed up to discuss the problems of living at Winthrop House. A roommate calls it her "finest hour," but Photo puts the success of that meeting on the House residents themselves. "What other House would get 275 people out for a meeting about what's wrong with the House? I was proud to be a part of that...
While the oarsmen were busy upholding a 120-year tradition of supremacy on the Charles, the softball team, in its first season on the varsity level, was rapidly establishing a reputation as one of the finest squads in the New England area. With the help of three varsity basketball players--ace pitcher Nancy Boutilier, third baseman Pat Horne and six-foot-tall slugger Elaine Holpuch--the team won 14 games, scoring more than 15 runs in most of them...
Even when Harvard's athletes were inactive this spring, the Soldiers Field complex was abuzz. Immediately after spring break, the finest swimmers in the country arrived in Cambridge for the United States National Swimming Championships and left American records galore on the Blodgett Pool record board. And in late April, five months after The Game, activity at the stadium became the focus of attention when an arsonist set the press box abiaze, causing an estimated $75,000 in damage...