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...latest ruckus began when the N.C.A.A. barred coaches and athletes under its jurisdiction from participating in two A.A.U.-sponsored competitions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. As a result, a weakened American team lost a track meet to the Russians in Richmond last month. More of the same seemed likely in a series of Soviet-American basketball games that will begin April 29 in Los Angeles. Last week N.C.A.A. Executive Director Walter Byers told the House Special Education Subcommittee that his organization would cooperate in the basketball event if the A.A.U. would formally apply for the services of undergraduate...
...singles match against Marjone Gengler, 6-0, 6-0, while senior Sara Stearns lost to Jane Kincaid, 6-1, 6-0. Princeton's Sue Epstein likewise shut out Junior Jill Robertson while Marjone's sister Louise Gengler defeated sophomore Joy Skon, 6-1, 6-2. Ingrid Sarapuu and Marcy Richmond also lost their matches, 6-0, 6-2 and 6-1, 6-0 respectively...
Morgan and Stearns lost the first doubles match to the Gengler sisters, 6-1, 6-2. Skon and Robertson folded 6-1, 6-0, and Sarapuu and Richmond lost...
...doubt but that the intentions are good. But intentions alone don't make a good story. Happily Richmond has done one or two interesting things that distract from the conspicuous banality of his prose. Midway through his narrative he includes an account of Joshua Aarons, a Victorian renegade who joined the Gold Rush, decamped to the Indians, and burrowed into a cave, leaving his diary of reminiscences and prophecies as testimony to the historicity of counterculture. Historicity or no, Joshua Aarons lends the author an opportunity to affect a Victorian prose style, demonstrating that Richmond can in fact do more...
High on Gold is Richmond's first novel, and there's much to be learned from it, although admittedly more in the line of the How Not To, than the How To. But still, there are enough happy accidents here to make it worth another go. For the main problem is, that like most first novels, Richmond's is myopically autobiographical. That's a disease that is sometimes curable with...