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...medley relay, we did a flip-flop with a couple of swimmers," Harvard coach Ray Essick said yesterday. For Harvard, George Keim swam the butterfly portion instead of Hess Ynetma and Wes Raffel was the anchorman in place of Keim...
Late Late Show flop of the week: John Kelly of Philadelphia, ineligible for England's Henley Diamond Sculls more than 50 years ago because he had worked with his hands as a bricklayer, returned to haunt the hoity-toity British in the person of his lissome granddaughter Princess Caroline of Monaco, 17. That was roughly the plot the Philadelphia Inquirer reported last week in a story that said Prince Charles of England, 25, was swept off his feet by Caroline. The pair got together presumably last year when she attended a convent school near Windsor Castle. The problems were...
...detected no overriding tide of opinion for the impeachment of the President. Ford had even declared, wishfully perhaps, that "the corner has been turned," and Nixon was regaining popularity. Fresh opinion polls quickly challenged that optimistic assumption. A Louis Harris Survey indicated that Operation Candor had been a dismal flop. Despite it, Nixon had skidded to a low point in popularity: only 30% of the public found his job performance acceptable. More significant, for the first time a plurality, 47% to 42%, agreed that he should resign. A Gallup poll also showed Nixon slipping again; his approval rating fell...
Means and Banks made statements about Indian solidarity and wondered aloud why the jury panel was all white. Network reporters began to wander out, and local cameramen started shooting footage of onlookers instead of the speakers. Then Kunstler predicted that the government's case would flop in the Wounded Knee trial, just as it has in every other political trial of the last few years...
...show. Sometimes the counters quickly settle into what Conway calls "still lifes" - stable, unchanging figures, including those known in the game's already rich jargon as "bee hives," 9, "snakes," 10 or "long ships," 11 . At other times the patterns may pulse, like the "traffic lights," which flip-flop between patterns 12 and 13. Other figures, including "gliders" and "spaceships," actually move across the board. Some seem to leave clouds of debris behind in their travels ("puffer trains") or climb in a diagonal line ("fuses") and give off clusters of "sparks." One of the more unusual shapes to emerge...