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...phrase made prominent by SNCC member Willie Ricks), and proceeded to expel its white members. Before the 1960s ended, it had forsaken the "non-violent" in its name, and become the "Student National Coordinating Committee." It began to speak a new language--Molotov cocktails, inflaming, needling, never giving an inch...
...most hallowed tennis ground under the Southern Cross. But Kooyong's center court is grass, and Borg refused .to play on that fast surface. So Promoter Paul Dainty shelled out another $48,000 to build a wooden platform and synthetic surface over the grass, allowing a five-inch airspace for the grass to "breathe...
Realizing this game was basically for practice, coach Carole Kleinfelder wisely used the opportunity to bring up two freshmen from the J.V. and give them some varsity playing time. Five-foot, ten-inch forward Sarah Albee and 5-ft. 11-in. Patty Davis both played well, gathering six points apiece, and were an especially encouraging sight to Harvard, which has lost most of its height due to injuries this season. The loss of Holpuch this weekend was especially hard on the hoopsters, but the 6-ft. 1-in. junior should be back in time to play in Tuesday's contest...
...kind, oxlike hardware store owner to whom she proposes marriage while killing bats. Here is Gordon's prose at its finely detailed, rhythmic best: "There were 16 bats, trying to lift themselves off the ground, trying, failing, bringing their wings together in desperation, raising themselves an inch, two inches, then falling. They moved their heads around, following me as I walked, as if they could see me. I thought of Linda's feet, her round translucent toenails, rose-colored, like shells, the perfect circle of her heels, her soles, tough but no match for all this...
...multimillion-dollar mechanism must be crafted with jeweler's precision. The curvature of the mirrors will be ground to an accuracy of better than a millionth of an inch, tolerances that would be wasted in a ground-based instrument because of atmospheric disturbances. The telescope's pointing system, locking onto guide stars and controlled by flywheels, will be able to fix on an object the size of a dime at a distance of 400 miles...