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...Crimson, coached by the legendary Jack Barnaby and Pris Pool, now belongs on the same plateau as the Tigers, and seniors Wendy Sonnabend (number six) and Libby Pierpont (who moved into Pew's fifth slot) played their last Howe Cup in style. Pierpont lost only two games all weekend, taking all seven matches...
Lots of them. Earlier this season, in only his 244th game, Bossy scored the 200th goal of his career. Thus in slightly more than three years in the N.H.L., Bossy has reached a scoring plateau attained by only 123 players. His closest challenger, Richard, required 336 games to reach 200 goals. This month Bossy set an N.H.L. record for hat tricks (three goals or more in a game) in a single season, with eight. In his first 49 games this year, Bossy poured in 48 goals, the hottest scoring pace since Richard's 1945 mark of 50 goals...
...that struck Belgian Artist Jean Verame, 44, in the Sinai Desert. The Sinai's relief is crazy," he says, "its density is fabulous." He simply had to paint it. But not on canvas. The artist's plan was to decorate the desert -specifically, the 5-sq.-mi. Plateau of Hallaoui-with patterns and fields of cobalt blue paint. "Blue," he explains, "because this color does not exist on the earth's surface." Despite impressive credentials -Verame had already festooned a dried riverbed in France and a mile of the Corsican coast-it took the artist two years...
...drafted by a North American Soccer League (NASL) team in December, he intends to join the newly founded Denver franchise after graduating in June. "I can't see myself leaving Harvard without pursuing my soccer career," he said, "and of course professional soccer is the highest plateau...
...easy triumph leaves the Crimson at 9-4 for the year, and looking forward to a contest against UPenn ten days hence on the astroturf in Philadelphia. The team goal for the season was to reach the ten-win plateau, and even if the squad loses at Penn, "there's no way we will lose to Yale at home." That's what Smith says, anyway...