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Spain has long held a firm grip on man's imagination. It is the land of mystery, a Gothic tapestry sewn together from strands of brutal sunshine and lustful blood, of tart wine and even tarter women. It is the secret of thunderous clouds menacing El Greco's Toledo; the acrid fire consuming the bodies of heretics during the Inquisition; the melancholy strains of a guitar played after a day's labor in the fields; the gnarled branches of the olive trees that cluster throughout the sun-beaten hills. It is the legend of the independence of the leather-skinned...
Above $200 you enter the relm of racing bikes. These machines come close to the ultimate in light weight and performance. The frames are handmade of special alloy tubing, the tires are known as sew-ups, (very light with the tubes sewn inside). Having the tubes sewn inside makes them a real pain to patch, but there is no other way of making a tire as light (often less than 200 grams per tire) or as strong (racers ride with tire pressures well over 100 pounds per square inch), or as easy to change. While a bicycle like this...
Following a neck and neck first round Brooklyn pulled ahead and seemed to have the meet all sewn up. But the Crimson would not give up, and came on with a strong third round showing to snatch victory away from Brooklyn. Harvard pulled off an incredible ten wins in a row in the final round...
...question for this year's team is goaltending. At the end of last season it appeared that Bertagna's backup, senior Steve Perry, had the position sewn up. But it now appears that sophomores Jim Murray and John Aiken have the inside track...
...best-kept secret of the affair was Anne's gown-a white silk princess-line dress with flowing medieval sleeves. The 15 seamstresses, who made the gown for an off-the-rack fashion house that Anne has long favored over the royal dressmakers, had each sewn into the hem a lock of her hair. Tucked into the bridal bouquet of white roses, lilies of the valley and stephanotis was "something old" -a sprig of myrtle grown on the Isle of Wight from a sprig of Queen Victoria's wedding bouquet-and a bit of white heather for good...