Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Captain Jim Strathmeyer (177 lbs.) won his fifth straight match, 6-0, topull Harvard within six points, but any remaining Crimson hopes were largely an illusion. Mass Maritime's entry at 190 lbs., Leon Dunham, came into the match with a perfect 26-0 record, and facing him was second-stringer Fred Smith, replacing the injured Sal D'agostino. Dunham manhandled Smith, 10-1, and the match was a good as over...
...wanted to live heliotropically, with the bedrooms facing east and the cocktail and dining area facing west," complained Millionaire Stewart Mott, 38, describing his hopes to build the perfect Manhattan home. Begun three years ago atop the 54th floor of a new apartment building, the four-story penthouse was to include a solarium kitchen, a library, pool, four bedrooms, office space for up to seven secretaries, a multilevel grand salon and more than 1,500 sq. ft. of terrace for Mott's main passion: organic vegetable gardening. The fastest-growing item at Mott's midtown Xanadu, however...
...weakest on the far side of the rink. It also does not hurt that Fassi coaches skaters from so many nations. In competition, judges from those countries sometimes give his pupils the benefit of the doubt: in Hamill's short program, the Italian judge gave her a perfect mark of 6.0 for presentation...
Died. Lily Pons, 701sh, tiny coloratura soprano whose trilling delighted audiences worldwide for more than 30 years; of cancer; in Dallas. A prizewinning pianist at the Paris Conservatory, Pons switched to singing when she discovered she had perfect pitch and extraordinary vocal cords. In 1929 at the Opera House in Mulhouse, Alsace, she debuted in Lakmé, a role in which she later daringly appeared, navel exposed, in costume sans midriff. One of her most famous performances was at the Metropolitan Opera in 1931: she sang the difficult "Mad Scene" in Lucia di Lammermoor...
...this mysterious tar-pounder? He was captain of his high school soccer and lacrosse teams, played semi-pro soccer and was on the ski patrol at a New York state ski area. He can grab a football and casually fling it 50 yards--in a perfect spiral...