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Wilson has been a steady performer on the Radcliffe pinball circuit all season long. His records include high ball and high game on "Flying Carpet," high game on "Swinger" and a phenomenal high game of 524,000 on "Fan-tas-tic...
...brief, turgid scenes demonstrates Whalen's emptiness, a quality that is never in doubt; nothing in the book offers any insight into the author's reasons for pursuing such an unrewarding project. One of Kosinski's few gestures toward literary excellence amounts to a stylistic tic: his repeated use of Grim Bits from Mother Nature to give symbolic weight to Whalen's flounders. The grotesque baobab tree, we learn, seems to have its branches in the earth and its roots in the air; a certain species of African bird can soar gracefully, but nearly always crashes...
...Harvard rugby club playing most of the game in Brown territory and forcing the Bruins to play without two of its men for the last 12 minutes of the game nevertheless settled for a 6-6 tic in muddy conditions Saturday in Cambridge...
...switch from Harvard's to the TIC's computer caused many of the delays in March and April. "We had to re-program 15,000 bits of information," Murphy said. "Some errors were bound to occur...
...shipping time for book orders deteriorated instead of improving. In April, TIC sent 50 per cent of all orders in four days. By August I. Murphy says, the shipping figure had fallen to 50 per cent in nine days...