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JESSIE FOVEAUX At 98, she sells her hard-luck story for a million plus. And now she's writing Volume...
Thus far, Yale is the hard-luck team of the Ancient Eight. The Elis have lost twice in overtime, both by 3-2 scores despite beating the Bears. Last week, Yale also fell to No. 20 Maine 4-3; however, the Bulldogs should be able to get back on track with their next game, against the Friars of Providence...
...sign of the times that amid this explosion of great science, the space story that has got by far the most TV coverage has been Shannon Lucid: plucky, hard-luck astronaut sentenced to six months of sponge baths and Russian food. I salute her spunk, but surely the publicity surrounding her represents a nadir of the shuttle program. Space-endurance records are the equivalent of watching grass grow. The endless hurling of men and women into near space has indeed made us the world's authority on zero-G nausea and other fascinations. But can we move on, please...
Galindo also chanted four names: Jess, George, Jim, Rick. He is known as a hard-luck skater for good reason. Galindo has been a national winner previously, but as 1992 Olympic ladies champion Kristi Yamaguchi's pairs partner. In 1990, two years before they were to go to the Olympics, she told him she was devoting all her energy to solo competition. Galindo was upset, not so much for himself as for his father. Jess, a trucker, was in dire health at the time, and he told Rudy he was holding on to see him make the Olympic team. Says...
...Such a hard-luck story befell the Crimson last night, with junior defenseman Geb Marett pulling his groin and dressing up in street clothes after the first stanza...