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...expected any drastic reversal of form this time, either, when Lutz trudged onto the Uniturf center court at Longwood to face the first man in a long gauntlet. Newcombe, a seasoned, exquisite stud, had Lutz against the wall, double match point within the first hour, and the vultures had barely unpacked their bags. Actually, they never got to. Lutz escaped elimination the next day against Brian Fairlie, and the next, when they threw five-time champion Rod Laver...
...great hazards of space travel between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter is the asteroid belt: a doughnut-shaped stretch of floating debris that could fatally pierce the thin metallic skin of a speeding spacecraft. Now, for the first time, a real ship is beginning to run this rocky gauntlet. Success will increase the possibility of future missions to Jupiter and the other outer planets (Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto...
...problems resulting from this ambiguity have turned out to be a great deal more consequential than the matter of official recognition would seem to imply--they revolved around what it meant to be a female student within the male-oriented Harvard machinery. The difficulties run the gauntlet from the troublesome male stereotypes of the typical Cliffie, and her overreaction in trying to combat those stereotypes, to Radcliffe's lack of a separate identity, to the subtle and not so subtle forms of chauvinism which display themselves in Harvard classrooms, the Harvard Administration, and the very structure of the University itself...
Broken Agreement. When he threw down the gauntlet last week, Mintoff broke an agreement with Heath to continue negotiating at least until next March. Evidently, Mintoff figured that he was in strong diplomatic shape for an early showdown. He has been courting the Soviets for some time, and last week, after he fired his shot at Whitehall, he ostentatiously flew off for secret talks with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's anti-Western regime in Libya...
...month or so ago, the infiltration and the Laotian air war started up again with dry-season intensity. This time, however, the Communists were ready with a vastly improved air-defense setup. The Ho Chi Minh Trail, once a relatively safe run for U.S. pilots, has become a gauntlet of fire that bristles with a variety of antiaircraft weapons. Overlooking the trail from the North Vietnamese border are 22 SAM-2 battalions with more than 130 launchers; their 30-mile-range missiles pose a serious threat to nimble fighters as well as lumbering...