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...Crimson tennis team trounced Pennaylvania players on the Quaker courts yesterday for a score of 8 1/2 to 1/2, winning six singles and two doubles, and splitting a third double. Harvard was a solid favorite to win despite play on unusual courts--surfaced with tar and fine gravel...
...dust, with both arms and her pelvis broken, was' raped by eleven soldiers. An American missionary girl was held prisoner for days and raped four times. One of the biggest laughs was to rip the clothes off white women and force them to dance about on sharp gravel, chanting such phrases as "I murdered Lumumba, the Christ of the Congo." After one dance nine nuns lay naked on a floor all night, locked in with Congolese soldiers. Said one: "They did not rape us, but did with our poor bodies things so disgusting we dare not say them...
...Pliofilm. Her life is sunless and funless. Her diet features wheat germ and chopped beef, her home is carefully air-conditioned, and she gets ultraviolet light treatments. But sunshine? Never. Twice a day Sister exercises in an "outdoor" run -shingle-roofed, walled with Plexiglas and floored with specially selected gravel. Only when she is being prepared for show is Sister permitted the luxury of a bath-in liquid Lux detergent. Scratching is forbidden: it might damage her coat. Panting is frowned upon: it might destroy her air of "distinction and dignity...
Astronomer Edward Israel, fresh out of the University of Michigan, babbled of home and mother's cooking, then collapsed. The first twelve men to die were dragged to a barren hillock and covered with gravel. After that, the weakened survivors could do no more than push the emaciated corpses into a tidal crack...
...only hard to find but, in Durante's case, even harder to catch. The couple got engaged ten years ago, and by 1956 Jimmy mustered the courage to announce that they would be married the following year. The betrothal stretched out over the next four years. Last week gravel-voiced, grammar-fracturing Durante, usually as vague as yesterday's fog, proclaimed that him and Margie will definitely be hitched this week...