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Linder missed the match because of general exams, and Rowbothom, his doubles partner, also did not make the trip. Crimson coach Jack Barnaby compensated for their absence by moving the regular second-through-sixth players each up a notch and adding John Thornton to the lineup...
...Thornton defeated Amherst captain Brian McDermott, 6-0, 6-4, to complete the singles sweep and then teamed with Hyde to take Snyder and Dumont, 6-4, 6-3, in the third doubles match. Ingard and Horn defeated Beates and Lewis, 6-1, 6-4, at number one, while Baird and Reiner, the second doubles pair, edged Cartin and George McGovern...
Given enough patience and endurance, readers can piece together several contradictory Faulkners strewn through Blotner's chronicle. There was the country humorist whose quips kept strangers at bay. (After listening to Thornton Wilder eagerly discuss the meaning of the title Light in August, Faulkner replied: "You know I never thought of that. It just sounded pretty.") The loving father vies with the tyrant who once told his daughter Jill: "Nobody remembers Shakespeare's children." Faulkner's Nobel Prize acceptance speech rang with hope: "I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail." Yet at practically...
Gamble, the villain of the third period, converted Brown's second shot on Jim Murray for the Bruins' only tally at 15:15 of the second. The goal came with the Crimson on the power play, as Bob Thornton won the faceoff in the Harvard zone and Gamble took the slapper for the score. Brown went on to force Murray to make three more saves before the stanza ended...
...Thornton Bradshaw, president of Atlantic Richfield, further contends that the industry was caught short by a whole congeries of events beyond its control. As recently as 1968-a "year of euphoria" for the industry, in his words-the companies thought that their supply problems were over: the Alaska North Slope oilfield had just been proved and was expected to be powering cars by 1972, drilling had started on a large offshore field in California's Santa Barbara Channel, and coal production was still going strong and was expected to take some of the slack from oil. Within months...