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...Bristol and the Experiment, both of 50 guns, only a few hundred yards from the fort and proceeded to pound it with broadside after broadside. At the same time, the bomb ketch Thunder anchored farther south and arched explosive 10-inch mortar shells into Moultrie's position. Three lighter vessels, the Actaeon and the Syren, both 28 guns, and the Sphinx, 20, drifted westward into the harbor, hoping to get round the fort and attack it from behind...
...antiquarian and linguist after an attack of polio, the coordinator of an African education project, the author of an article on the artist Oskar Kokoschka, and is currently a student of plants. She explained her activities without the rabbi's serious tone in what she called a characteristic "lighter vein...
After the employee with the dark hair and very red lips leaves the snack room, the supervisor with the sandy hair, pastel-blue bellbottoms and the cigarette lighter with a picture of a woman in a negligee remains. He says that he harbors hopes of rising in the Harvard bureaucracy but that he feels no competitive pressure. "We all have to work for a common goal," he says...
...violent headwind clearly hampered the varsity eight in the finals. "We were the only lightweight crew there, and so the headwind undoubtedly hurt us the most, especially with our much lighter shell," number seven oarswoman Jane Clark said yesterday...
...music director's job. "We try to reconcile the house's interest with that of the individual," he says. But it cannot always be done. "One problem we face is that there are fewer great singers of the big-voice type than there were. And lighter-voiced singers have been paid a great price for things they were not really up to, and so didn't have the time to grow...