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...into a basketball arena. Reardon said funding problems forced the Athletic Department to drop plans for the Dillon addition and the new hockey rink. The basketball team, hence, will continue to play on the worn courts of the Indoor Athletic Building (IAB); the hockey team, after this year's hiatus at B.U., will use the renovated-Watson Rink; and several sports teams will continue to feel the crunch in space available for locker room and other team facilities, though extensive renovations in Dillon to be completed this year should ease the problem...
Quite by chance it happens that we now have two simultaneous productions of Twelfth Night. The work was chosen by Gerald Freedman, the newly appointed artistic director of the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut, as the vehicle for resuming activity after a season's hiatus. And it is the inaugural offering of the second "Broadway at Brandeis" season here at the Spingold Theatre in nearby Waltham. With such a wondrous work, however, this overlapping by no means constitutes excess--or "surfeit," to use the play's own word for one of its major themes...
While Evert took a four-month hiatus from the circuit early this year, Navratilova became the scourge of the women's tour. By the end of March, she had won seven straight tournaments. Chris, an old friend, met the slimmer (145 Ibs.) and newly determined Martina in a Wimbledon warmup at the English seaside resort town of Eastbourne in late June. Navratilova won that stirring duel, serving notice that her resurgence was for real...
...tremendous strength in his outsized hands, an innate sense of balance and pace and, despite his years, the cool confidence that he could win. In his first full year as a jockey, he won 477 races in New York State alone, and this despite a four-week hiatus after a terrifying spill had left him with a broken rib, a smashed arm and facial lacerations. Three times he rode six winners in a nine-race program; four times he won five. In one amazing week he won 23 of the 54 races at New York's Aqueduct Race Track...
Another returnee from a year's hiatus is senior pointman Glenn Fine. A deft ballhandler and penetrating guard, Find is expected to quarterback the Crimson fastbreak...