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Smith showed his class in the first match against Nastase, 26, keeping his cool while the gallery of 6,500 partisan fans shouted "Hai, Ili-uta!" ("Go, little Hie!"). Nastase, an army lieutenant and the closest thing Rumania has to a matinee idol, ran the gamut of his storied antics. He danced back and forth while waiting for a serve, interrupted play to swat at a fly with his racket, and soccer-kicked a ball to the sidelines. The crowd lapped it up, but Smith refused to be shaken. Leading 10-9 in the first set, he responded...
Naturally, Dr. Blaine still sees a great need for the psychiatrist at Harvard. "We know, of course, we can't take the place of the Faculty, so any suspicions of encroachment are ili-founded. Both the Faculty and the psychiatrist have their place in the University...
...five-day freedom celebrations poured crowds of Samoans and scores of foreign dignitaries. A special commemoration service was held for Western Samoa's revered, onetime resident, Robert Louis Stevenson, who lived out his last consumptive years in the islands. Also on hand were Tupua Tamasese and Malietoa Tanuma-ili II, two of Western Samoa's paramount chiefs, who will jointly serve as head of state until they die. After their deaths, the 45-man legislature will elect a single head of state for a five-year term...
...None May Plot Murder." The Chinese had hoped to conciliate the Ili rebels by granting local self-government, by accepting as vice governor of Sinkiang (in a coalition Government) one of the rebels themselves. But the Chinese were wondering. Young (32), trim Vice Governor Achmadjahm had suddenly packed his belongings and family last month. In a Russian plane they flew to the northwest...
...first time the Hi valley has seen strange flags. Soldiers of Czarist Russia moved into the fertile Ili in the middle 1870s. The Manchu Dowager Empress, in one of her few feats of diplomacy, persuaded them to depart...