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George de la Pena, 22. Soloist, American Ballet Theater. The slight (5 ft. 9 in., 140 lbs.) De la Pena's long suit is a powerful sense of theater. At A.B.T. he has danced such roles as the Bluebird in Sleeping Beauty, a sailor in Fancy Free and the Nutcracker prince. A high point came last year when he played the old dollmaker in Coppélia. A curtain-time substitute, he gave a dark, almost mystical performance that New York balletomanes still prize...
Harvard would rate as a slight favorite in the contest, but for one thing--captain and number one singles player Todd Lundy will sit out today and perhaps until the May 3 Yale match, with a mysterious muscle injury along his ribcage. The whole Crimson lineup will shift, with Don Pompan playing one and Bob Horne taking over...
...next year. 1943, Steinberg enlisted in the Navy and became a U.S. citizen. He was at once assigned to Intelligence and posted successively to Ceylon, to Calcutta and then, masquerading as a weather observer with the 14th Air Force (his knowledge of meteorology being slight), to Kunming in China. His task was to act as a go-between with friendly Chinese guerrillas. Since he spoke little English and less Chinese, he drew pictures for them. It was a small but poignant metaphor of once r ...... and future Sino-American incomprehension...
...tree, as well as Alberto Avellano and A.F. Oreshnik, which have similar meanings in, respectively, Spanish and Russian. E. Richard Johnson is another con, whose fine first novel, Silver Street, won a Mystery Writers of America Edgar award in 1968. Johnson, alas, is back in the slammer: a slight case of armed robbery...
...rustiness from a winter spent in Weld Boathouse showed at the start, when B.U. jumped out to a slight lead, but after that it was all Radcliffe. The women in black put open water between themselves and the Terriers in the first third of the race, then simply built and built on the lead over the 1500-meter course and finished five-and-a half lengths in front...