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Just before the premiere, Mayor John Lindsay presented Balanchine with the city's Handel Medallion in recognition of his cultural contributions to New York. "If we could bottle the New York City Ballet," said Lindsay, "it would be the city's finest export." Then Who Cares? returned the compliment by offering a splendid sampling: Manhattan, oldfashioned, wry and sweet...
...Harvard had the two finest squash players in the nation in Anil Nayar and Larry Terrell. All the Crimson needed was three victories at the bottom seven positions. All the Crimson...
...That's the best two minutes you ever spent," a teammate tells him later. But Hart knows that his finest moment came between the periods, when he and I are drinking out of the bubbler downstairs, and Martell comes down the corridor. Here is Martell, you understand, with his leading scorer, and the leading scorer in the City, out for the game and maybe a couple of more. He gives Hart the goddamn dirtiest look you can imagine, but doesn't SAY anything, and Hart just gives him a hulking Charlestown grin and clomps down the passageway in his skateguards...
...Crimson team, will compete in the Cowles Division. Terrell is presently ranked third in the national amateur ratings. The toughest challenge in the division should come from last year's Harvard captain, Anil Nayar. While at Harvard, Nayar twon the intercollegiate title three times and compiled probably the finest individual athletic record in Harvard history...
...enemy bombs and British bureaucrats. The 67 pictures that serve as illustrations to the book will be emotive to the older generation in Britain and should be informative to the young everywhere. Calder himself is young. He was born in 1942, not far removed from Britain's "finest hour," according to Churchill. The calculative eye of history, however, might identify it as Britain's most miserable hour since the Black Death some 600 years earlier...