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Harvard track stars Ed Ajootian and Mel Embree may have garnered all the publicity over the weekend when they won the hammer throw and the high jump respectively at the IC4A Championships in Philadelphia, but the real news for Harvard was freshman Joe Pellegrini's fifth place finish in the discus event...
Ajootian, the sophomore wunderkind, won the hammer throw with a toss...
Ajootian won the hammer throw on his last toss. "It was a stupid meet," Ajootian said. "The other guys gave it to me." Ajootian's toss of 200 ft. 8 in. was eight feet shorter than his personal best. "I don't think any of us were used to competing in the morning," he said. "Two other entrants had thrown over 200 feet before coming into the meet...
...aware as Zaccagnini of this voter concern, and they appear to be making allowances for it even before the campaign formally opens. The posters for the Partite Comunista Italiano that appeared all over the country last week urged voters to choose the PCI and save Italy. The hammer and sickle symbol, however, was muted, as so far have been the campaign statements of party bosses. In a speech last week, Giorgio Napolitano, a top PCI leader, made a surprising and significant distinction between Communist goals this time round. "We say that Communist participation in national decisions is essential," Napolitano said...
...Alexander's Mr. Peachum-the Fagin of London's turn-of-the-century beggars-might have been drawn by George Grosz. The Kurt Weill score, too renowned for praise (Mack the Knife, Pirate Jenny), is superbly rendered. This Threepenny Opera honors the Brecht who wrote with a hammer and swung a sickle. T.E, Kalem