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Mimi's ball is a slam dunk affair, with two bands, countless bars, and tables groaning under mountains of pâté, strawberries and cheese. All this is matched by ample dollops of gossip and boredom. Was this bigger than last week's ball? What about the decorations? Where did that dress come from? What do you think this cost? And where in God's name did Mimi get those rubies? "I think they went through the telephone directory," complains one older gentleman, unhappy at the size of the ball. "I could invite anyone I wanted...
...Carlton intercepted a Fleming-to-Dixon pass, and flipped the ball to center Pat Elzie, who converted a crowd-pleasing slam dunk to raise the Holy Cross lead to three. And Harvard never got that close again...
Late in the half, Dixon shifted the running game into high gear and converted two bobbled Dartmouth passes into screaming, full-court lay-ups. Fleming followed up with a rafter-rattling slam-dunk at the three-minute mark, and the Crimson took a 42-32 lead into the locker room at half-time...
There are plenty of particulars that will require some fancy footwork by Nitze & Co. If the Soviets do not simply slam the door on negotiations, they are likely to insist that any accounting of weapons in Europe include the French and British nuclear arsenals, as well as such "forward based" nuclear delivery systems as the U.S. F-111 fighter-bombers based in Britain and submarines on patrol in the North Atlantic. Although the U.S. would prefer to see the discussions focus solely on intermediate-range ground missiles such as the Pershing II and SS-20, one top U.S. policymaker admits...
...body and result in the same injuries, some produce their own peculiar ills. Golfers get twinges of golfer's elbow. Swimmer's shoulder may catch up with anybody who favors the butterfly stroke. There is even something known as "dunk laceration syndrome" that strikes highflyers who slam the ball through the basket, hitting their hands against the hoop...