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...Procession, a short story that had never previously appeared in English. Blake did not meet her favorite author until 1974, when she interviewed him in Zurich, an early stop in Solzhenitsyn's exile. Recalls Blake: "He was unexpectedly approachable, despite the fact that he was agonized by the ordeal of his expulsion." Invited to revisit the author at his home in Cavendish, Vt., Blake found him "more robust, infinitely more at ease, though he remains profoundly attached to his homeland. Even the 50-acre property on which he spends his days has the distinctive wild look of his beloved...
Hopes soared last week that an end to the three-month ordeal of the 50 American hostages in Tehran might be in sight. The State Department denied a Kuwaiti newspaper report that the release of the hostages was "imminent," but one Western diplomat in Tehran cautiously admitted that there were some "positive signs." In response, the U.S. announced a delay in the imposition of economic sanctions against Iran...
...team might have beaten Trinity by more than the 9-7 score it collected Friday, but the electrical equipment used for scoring touches wasn't working, and Coach Sheldon Berman didn't play his first and second fencers in anticipation of Saturday's six-hour ordeal. "We won but it wasn't much of a victory," Berman said yesterday. "It was ludicrous...
...people of Paraguay have captured me," he explained in an interview following his address to a Harvard and Cambridge crowd which packed Phillips Brooks House to listen in shocked silence to his story, or rather to the story of Paraguay's ordeal since General Alfredo Stroessner took over in a coup d'etat in 1954. Despite Stroessner's stranglehold on the country, Filartiga believes he is "a slave of my people," not of the government...
Although Mason's wrestling career suffered through ups and downs while he weathered a succession of problems with inexperience, illness and injury, his rugged academic requirements and tutorials presented little challenge. When the time came to deal with the biggest ordeal of each wrestling season--making weight--Mason solved all of his troubles at once by burying himself in the stacks of the Yenching Library, far away from the Lowell House dining hall...