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...triumph over the Green, Mac tied a Harvard record, with three touchdown catches, the third a diving grab between two defenders. Against the Bruins, number 81 hauled in six passes to help Crimson quarterback Jim Kubacki to his finest...
...three governments. It is the world's first twin-engined wide-body jetliner, and it can carry up to 310 passengers for almost 50% less in operating costs per seat mile than the stretched version of the 727, which has similar capabilities. In a sense, the Airbus is the finest American plane that the Europeans could build; its highly efficient engines are produced by General Electric. The Airbus Industrie consortium has sold 157 Airbuses to 16 airlines, and the largest order, for 23, came from Eastern. In 1974, President Borman began begging American planemakers to build a weight-saving twinjet...
...Menachem Begin's finest hour. During a rowdy session of the Knesset that was televised nationally last week, Israel's Premier lost his temper in a debate with Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres about Peres' talks with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Vienna, came close to weeping, and tore up pieces of paper. At a closed session of Labor delegates, even former Premier Golda Meir wondered aloud whether Begin had lost his senses. Meanwhile, a new "denial unit" in Begin's office, created to offset critical press stories about him, was working full time to explain...
Although it has had its strong detractors over the years, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is for many the finest comedy in our language. It was the climax of a series of three romantic comedies written in quick succession; Shakespeare learned much from the experience of writing the inferior Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It, and was able to approach perfection in Twelfth Night. Having done so, he turned away from the genre to deal with darker or tragic matters...
Previn was not surprised either. Said he: "I kept telling him that he would win because he is the finest young cellist in the world...