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...high school sophomore, Roberts qualified for the 1972 16-under National Singles at Charleston. The West Virginia trip was made possible by Robert's top-flight ranking by the Eastern Lawn Tennis Association (ELTA). Earlier in that year, Roberts had captured the ELTA Doubles Championship for her age group, the first of an unprecedented five straight doubles crowns. Her partner for several of those championships was Debbie Campbell, currently a freshwoman stand-out at Princeton...
Berrigan says he last directly communicated with Pedro Arupe, the Jesuit Superior-General, while in a Washington D.C. jail last spring awaiting prosecution for digging a grave on the White House lawn in protest of U.S. nuclear armament policy. "The only problem with the grave we dug was that we left it empty. If we had filled it with little children, we might have been decorated," Berrigan commented...
...Halcy on, are called out to Delhi by their envoy father - only to discover that they are chaperones to his Eurasian fiancee. At first the book evokes the formal, secluded India of the diplomats: banks of flow ers, servants, gardeners, even a boy to beat dew from the lawn. It is a world of riding, parties and ease. Then Una and Ravi, a young Indian poet, fall in love - and the India of poverty, distances, dust, stenches, desperate class divisions, overcrowding, sacred rivers, rises from the mist...
...section of lawn separated from the White House by this new extension of Pennsylvania Avenue is now known as Lafayette Park, at whose center stands not a statue of Lafayette-that would be too logical-but one of Andrew Jackson astride his horse. I was pleased to see that the Capitol is at last finished...
...soft-spoken, polite man, Packwood smiled at passersby from his niche on a small plot of frozen lawn, but showed no aggressiveness in nabbing the potential voters in their number--all of which left one reporter wondering whether God had a chance in His battle against Communism with soporific soldiers like this...