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Last night's first half was an exercise in how to play solid catch-up basketball. After the Big Green jumped off to an early 8-0 lead, the Crimson didn't get on the board untill senior co-captain Mark Harris sunk two free throws at 16:49. The Harvard quinted continually chipped away at the lead and finally tied it up at 31 with 2:53 to go in the half. They never looked back...
...After eight films, it is still not possible to say more than that there is no reason to think she cannot. Some of her movies have sunk out of sight, and one, Peter Fonda's Wanda Nevada, was never released. Director Malle guided her brilliantly through Pretty Baby, a film opulent of flesh but lacking the bone structure that might have made it great. She mugged cheerfully in a not very successful George Burns comedy, Just You and Me, Kid. (She says she wants to do comedy, but her mother, less sure, would prefer she stay with pretty pictures...
...different precedent was offered by the Mayaguez incident. On May 12, 1975, Cambodian forces seized the American merchant ship Mayaguez and its 39 crewmen in the Gulf of Siam. On May 14 the ship was freed, after U.S. fighter jets had sunk three Cambodian gunboats, the Marines had landed on Cambodia's jungle islet of Koh Tang, and the U.S. had bombed a Cambodian air base at Ream. As soon as the ship was seized, President Ford simply declared the matter "an act of piracy," then threatened military action. On May 14 he dutifully appealed to the United Nations...
...over her face. At home she falls into long silences, plays solitaire during the day and comes alive at night, keeping the lights out and letting the darkness in: "Sylvie in a house was more or less like a mermaid in a ship's cabin. She preferred it sunk in the very element it was meant to exclude...
...Archaeological Museum in Florence. Experts there spent five years employing special scalpels, tiny hammers driven by compressed air and a new, ultrasonic cleaning technique to remove the remaining detritus. What had saved the works, besides the restorers' loving labors, was the sand into which they had sunk: it protected the pieces from corrosion...