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Harvard had its toughest time in the folly, losing four bouts. Star Crimson foilman Phillippe Bennet was 1-2, as was John Major, who returned to foil after a brief fling the last few matches at sabre, Larry White, also at sabre...
Three years ago, she had a fling with a former Cardiff nightclub manager named Raymond Lovegrove ("She always insisted on going home to her boy friend every night," said Lovegrove, and now his wife Linda is threatening to sue him for divorce, naming Helen as corespondent). Reluctant to hurt her 18-month-old son Richard (the child of former boy friend Boutique Owner Christopher Clode) by more publicity, Helen abdicated. It was back to virgins for Mecca. The new Miss World, Runner-Up Anneline Kriel, 19, of South Africa, whose boy friend is a theological student, says: "I will ward...
...that would include Saturn. NASA had just scuttled its even more ambitious "grand tours," which would have taken advantage of the alignment of the outer planets in the late 1970s to send, for example, a single spacecraft past Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, using the gravity of one planet to fling the ship toward the next. But Van Allen stubbornly refused to give up. At his suggestion, imaginative "back-room" trajectory experts at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory showed that a corkscrew turn could get Pioneer to Saturn at no extra cost...
...house: two sisters, Nellie and Margo, plus their brother's daughter Rita, 17, who came into their care after her mother died. Unmarried Nellie's indignation colors their lives. Having sacrificed her own youth to the care of her mother, she holds Marge's brief, unsuccessful fling at marriage in daily contempt. Nellie sews dresses at home. Margo works in a munitions factory and drinks-when she can afford to-because she is fiftyish, fat and frustrated. The time is 1944 and the city is full of American soldiers: "Overpaid," as Rita's father (and everybody...