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...Tamara McKinney, 20, virtually clinched the women's overall championship, a first for the U.S. "I still can't believe it, but it feels great," said McKinney. "I was a little nervous about the race today. I just let the skis run." When Switzerland's Erika Hess, the defending champion, fell at a gate last week, McKinney moved up from third place, past Hess and Hanni Wenzel of Liechtenstein. Then, summoning what she called "the best ski days of my career," Tamara won two giant slaloms in Waterville Valley, N.H., her fourth and fifth victories...
Moore became famous in 1961 when he teamed with three other Oxbridge grads-Cook, Miller and Alan Bennett-in the satirical review Beyond the Fringe. Moore's most brilliant contributions were at the keyboard, in a lampoon of Myra Hess playing the "Moonlight"Sonata and in a hilarious, dizzy bit about a pianist who is unable to conclude a coda to a florid piece. The show played for four years to packed houses, first in London, then in New York. When it ended, Moore and Cook went on to do a television series and five movies, including Bedazzled, their...
...University's oldest swimming record survived one more year as sophomore Tony Meier's 50/39 finish in the 100 butterfly missed Hess Yatema's 1973 mark by 128 seconds. Competing with an injured shoulder, Meier took 5th in the event, with senior Jack Gauthier grabbing sixth in 50.59. Princeton's Mike Smith retained his title, winning the race in 49.09--a new Eastern record...
...keep to her payment arrangements." Furnace repairmen, Illinois Bell Telephone (which in one day logged 613,000 calls to its Chicago weather information number, six times more than normal) and travel agents, among others, all had as many customers as they could handle. Said Travel Agent Jason Hess of his booming business: "Everybody wants to go to Jamaica or the Bahamas...
...left a loophole, though, that would allow Mobil to go ahead if it gives up some of Marathon's gas stations and its distribution network. But the agency still refused to consider Mobil's offer to sell off part of Marathon's holding to Amerada Hess Corp., another oil company, as a way of maintaining competition in markets where both Mobil and Marathon do business...