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...free afternoons and weekends, they went sightseeing and enjoyed trying the local cuisine. Duane, whom everyone calls Pete, developed a taste for eel with hot pepper. They were invited to cook dinner with a Chinese family in their home, and were allowed to visit the hut of a Taoist monk--a rare privilege, even for the Chinese. After waiting almost a lifetime to travel at all, the Petersons now plan to do volunteer vacations every year. Says Pete: "We're hooked...
Against Tulsa on Saturday, the top two doubles teams let the Crimson down with slow starts and even worse finishes. Sean Monk and Shri Sudhakar of the Hurricane defeated the No.1 team of Green and Styperek 8-4, and Steve Timperley paired up with Juan Bertoldi to defeat Lee and Lingman 8-4. The only bright spot was Rich and Barker's come-from-behind victory over the team of Mike Nammar and Micah Zomer...
...down to No.2 on Saturday, suffered another tough loss, splitting the first two sets against Sudhakar, but getting blown out in the third 6-1. Styperek and Lingman's matches at Nos. 3 and 4 paralleled each other. Both took the first set, only to drop the next two. Monk defeated Styperek 2-6, 6-2, 6-1, while Timperley beat Lingman 3-6, 6-1, 6-1. On the plus side, Harvard took the No. 6 and 7 singles, with Rich winning again 6-2, 6-0 against Zomer, and freshman Joel Dechant, playing in his first intercollegiate match...
Adopting the wardrobe of a beatnik and the eating habits of a monk, RUPERT MURDOCH is easing into a new phase of life. In the upcoming issue of Vanity Fair, Murdoch, 68, reports that his updated look, featuring a preponderance of black, is due less to WENDI DENG, 32, his wife of three months, than to his sons. "I wanted to look like them," he says, "40 years younger." To that end, he has been visiting "some institute at UCLA--they've got me on a morning drink [of] fruit and soya powder" and exercising with a trainer who "tortures...
...owner, sitting at a cafe while a woman crouches at her feet, giving her toenails their weekly polish. "Only by candle. It cost me $2 a week." Wander off the main streets, and you are in a maze of little lanes--completely unlighted and unpaved--where a former Zen monk runs a guesthouse and Africans fleeing either civil war or justice live by teaching English...