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...Haul carrying 65 University of Virginia (UVa) students overturned and crushed a Volkswagen Wednesday night, killing two passengers and seriously injuring 14. Police officers on the scene said the student driver had been drinking before the accident...
...UVa student paper yesterday quoted Virginia State Police as saying they saw beer cans rolling out of the truck at the scene of the accident. But David Trinkle, president of the Inter-Fraternity Council, said the driver. David Holmes, had told police he had one beer and had passed the police's non-intoxication test...
...whiz Darlene Beckford proved herself equal to the meet's high calibre by winning the mile in an outstanding 4:38.3 showing. Teammate Jenny Stricker took the lead early in the race, with fast quarters of 65 and 73 seconds, but was passed with one lap to go by UVa. junior Jill Haworth. Beckford then bolted into the lead at the final turn to out lean Haworth at the tape by .2 seconds...
There are strains. The grandparents prefer to speak Spanish at home and tune in only Spanish-language TV and radio programs, Don Carlos, center, and his family while Uva and Jorge switch back and forth between Spanish and English programs, and Uvi and Christina strictly prefer American offerings. The grandmother feels that her grandchildren's American friends are "very ill-mannered and have excessive freedom," and Uva must often act as referee between her mother and her daughters. Twenty years ago, for example, the grandparents insisted that a chaperone accompany Uva and Jorge when they went...
...move, Uva believes, was "a great decision." She is a writer and poet at home in the Latin atmosphere of Miami. "Even though I've been in the U.S. for 21 years and know English well enough, I feel in Spanish," says Uva, who has published four books of poetry in her native language. She will begin graduate studies in Spanish literature at the University of Miami this January, while Jorge, a real estate agent, is studying for his B. A. in political science at Biscayne College. Don Carlos still taps out a column three times a week...