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Number one singles player Joy Skon, using a consistent cross-court game, outlasted Pine Manor's first, Marta Schaeffer, 6-3, 6-2. The Crimson number two player, Marcie Richmond, had to depend on her serve to defeat Toni Carton. Lissa Muscatine, who earlier in the afternoon had to defeat teammate Ingrid Sarapuu to play third singles, powered by Pine Manor's Karen Logar...
...prison itself is undeniably needed. Serving as a "reception center" for all newly convicted felons, it would help replace an antiquated and overcrowded facility in Richmond. It therefore must be located in a central part of the state, near good roads and close to well-equipped hospitals. Green Springs, in Louisa County, filled all the requirements. In 1970 the county board of supervisors, delighted at the prospect of gaining part of the prison's $1.5 million annual payroll, endorsed the project. As for the historic architecture, said Supervisor R. Earl Ogg, "Why, Virginia is full of houses like that...
...gentility. Last week its manicured grounds were savaged by an intruder from the socialist East, a lank-haired and slightly mad lieutenant of the Rumanian army named Ilie Nastase, 26. Flying about the grass courts like an impassioned Gypsy dancer, Nastase came from behind to defeat Arthur Ashe of Richmond 3-6, 6-3, 6-7, 6-4, 6-3 and win the U.S. Open championship. His reward: a check for $25,000 and a stylish Pinto station wagon that should be the talk of Bucharest...
...fact, only 28 miles of what eventually will be a 75-mile network will be ready. By next year, however, the entire system is expected to be operative. The first stretch links Oakland, in the East Bay area, with Fremont in the south. The next will reach north to Richmond. Other arms will extend east to Concord and west under the Bay into San Francisco and down the peninsula to Daly City. The X-shaped system will touch every urban population concentration in the three counties, linking up an estimated 2.5 million people...
...busing case from Denver, it will consider whether the informal-or so-called de facto -school segregation common outside the South is as unconstitutional as the de jure segregation explicitly established in Southern states by law. The stalled rulings in the much publicized cases of Detroit and Richmond, involving busing across county lines between city and suburb, are also now being appealed. And it is likely that there will be a request to review a ruling last month that a judge can order busing only after trying "every other possible remedy...