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Michael Desaulniers '80 experienced both the zenith of happiness and the nadir of disappointment in the Spalding World Professional Squash Racquets Tournament held at the Manhattan Squash Club this week...
Harvard's triple-overtime victory in Hanover. N.H., came after the team's season had reached its nadir. Coach Frank McLaughlin's crew had self-lestructed in the Colonial Classic, collapsing in the consolation round to UMass, a team that had lost 29 games...
Grand Junction, Colorado, a town like a hundred other western towns, stretched like rags on a clothesline down five or six miles of four-lane mainstreet, motels and chain store steak restaurants dangling off the side, was the journey's nadir. Planted in the middle of nowhere--away from the mountains, on the edge of the desert--its only excuse was the conflation of the Gunnison and Colorado Rivers. Like my automobile, the town itself is an escape hatch. Nothing strange penetrates past the jacked-up cars in which everyone cruises...
Hubbard does not reach her nadir, however, until the second side of the album. The second cut, "Arabia," is introduced to us with the following notes...
...quickly hired him as vice chair man for news. A lawyer by trade, he is breezy, tough and smart - and responsible. He was disturbed when ABC made Barbara Walters an anchorwoman; he was even more offended when Arledge began hyping up ABC News - a process that reached a nadir with the tabloid-style coverage of the "Son of Sam" murder case in 1977. Unable to match Cronkite's authority and popularity, Arledge countered with the gimmickry of three anchormen, "tossing" the news from Washington to London to Chicago...