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Keyte got out of a ninth-inning jam when Kelley turned a nifty double play to end the game and give Harvard its 18th win in 30 outings...
Stately old Edinburgh is a delight, even?or particularly?outside the jam-packed festival season (Aug. 19-Sept. 8). Sir Walter Scott country and Loch Lomond make a good two-day excursion. A fine place to stay is Greywalls Hotel, 18 miles east of Edinburgh, in the Gullane area, which boasts ten golf courses. For a taste of the real Highlands, there is the rocky county of Ross and Cromarty, which rolls across Scotland from the North Sea to the Atlantic. Strathgarve Lodge at Garve offers deer hunting, fishing, golf and well-wrought meals on a 1,000-acre estate...
...Jazz Jam Session--Boston Common, 12 noon...
Stinking buses, their passengers gaunt, pale and weary, jam the crowded streets. Drivers shout at one another and honk their horns as they turn the city's few escape routes into ribbons of steel. Smog smarts the eyes and chokes the senses. The scene is Athens at rush hour. The city of Plato and Pericles is in a sorry state of affairs, built without a plan, lacking even adequate sewerage and sanitation facilities, hemmed in by mountains and the sea, its 135 sq. mi. crammed with 3.7 million people. Even Athens' ruins are in ruin: sulfur dioxide eats...
...National Association of Alternative Newsweeklies' annual convention last month at Boston's elegant Parker House, the nonstop chatter about special advertising sections and "upscale demographics" finally touched off a flurry of selfcriticism. "I get this vision of [readers as] some sort of sausage, into which you jam all the consumer goods you can," said Village Voice Columnist Alexander Cockburn. On the final afternoon of the three-day affair, the delegates rather selfconsciously voted to insert "alternative" into the association's name. IF. Stone, the archetype of maverick journalists, picked up on their discomfiture in his keynote speech...