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...kind of town. "This move was forced on me," insists the Pulitzer prizewinner. "I can't get good press from the New York Times, and [critics] Harold Clurman, Brendan Gill and Jack Kroll hate me." Williams says he has one new full-length play and four shorter ones ready for Windy City production. He adds: "I put too much of my heart in them to have them demolished by some querulous old aisle sitters...
...second half was much shorter than the first half for some reason. Only one interesting thing happened. Some old guy who had been sitting in a pit under the stands stormed out of his hole all of a sudden and walked onto the field. He said a couple of things that I couldn't hear to some guy standing on a little hill in the middle of the field (I could never understand why he stood there--right where he was most likely to be hit in the head with one of the pucks), who is called the guard. Anyway...
...over the net: hit the ball lower, it will catch the tape, higher and it will sail out of play. With topspin, however, the ball can fly several feet above the net and still drop down into play. After it clears the net, a topspin ball falls shorter and bounces higher than a conventional shot...
...public transportation. Intercity bus ridership was up 10% in the first quarter of the year, a sharp reversal for an industry that has gone mostly downhill since World War II. Amtrak's business from October through March was up 11% on longdistance train routes and 17% on shorter runs. Biggest gainers are trips out of Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit and New York, which were traditionally the domain of auto travel. Riding on the rails between Los Angeles and San Diego is up a sharp 35%. For more and more drivers the slogan "See the U.S.A. in your Chevrolet...
...said. "As a coach I would discourage any runner who put in as little training as I did." Thirty-four years old, the rookie coach started running the Marathons when he entered Harvard Law School in 1968. Although he admits he does not really enjoy the race, preferring a shorter, faster pace, he still runs "out of force of habit." This year, Babington said "my motivation dropped to zero--after two miles I wanted to drop out." But the graduate of Williams College hung on, encouraged by Crimson track stars Ellen Hart and Darlene Beckford, who greeted him with sponges...