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...Twin-Bill...
Today, the Crimson may finally open its season with a greater Boston League doubleheader at Northeastern. Or, the batsmen may finally open their season with a twin-bill against the Huskies at Soldiers Field. Or, they may not open the season today at all, since the hottest selling item at the Soldiers Field concession stand continues to be mud pies. No one really knows for sure...
Whether or not they open the GBL season today, the Crimson should begin its all-important Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League slate this weekend at Soldiers Field, playing host to perennial league power Navy in a doubleheader Saturday afternoon, and coming back with a twin-bill against improving Princeton on Sunday. Junior Bill Doyle and senior Jim Curtin will pitch against the Midshipmen, and freshman Jeff Musselman and junior Bill Larson will take the mound against the Tigers...
Here Brown weaves humor into the pathos. Southern Discomfort avoids didacticism and sentimentality, the twin pitfalls of any novel discussing unauthorized, romantic love. Brown has no patience with humanity's cruelties, and laughs at her characters' foibles; she is, however, never unsympathetic. At times she treats helpless sinners with art unexpected gentleness that betrays the author's love for our race, despite its flaws...
...photographers were Venera (for Venus) 13 and 14, the latest in a series of Soviet robot envoys to the earth's nearest planetary neighbor. Venera 13 lasted two hours and seven minutes on the Venusian griddle, while its twin worked about half as long. But their handiwork survived to become the hit of the show at the 13th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston last week. As the photographs were shown to some 560 scientists, most of them Americans, oohs and aahs rose from the audience. Says University of Minnesota Physicist Robert Pepin: "There was no small amount...