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They're lonely over at Briggs Cage. The men's varsity basketball team, recently recovered from a mini-slump and playing exciting if not technically perfect ball, drew fewer people to last Thursday's game than visitor St. Anselm. Saturday night, a game against Vermont came down to the final second of overtime. It was heart-stopping--for the couple of hundred hearts watching...
...name is Daimon Paine, and the students at the Dudley Co-ops profess a universal affection for their visitor. "He's witty, knows a lot about what's going on, and has an interesting perspective on the world, from someone you wouldn't expect [to have] that kind of insight," says Susan M. Minter '84, president of the Dudley...
...view of the buildings' endless white corridors and advanced diagnostic equipment last year, shortly after the new medical complex opened, when the Soviet Union played host to more than 5,000 physicians from around the globe, who were attending the Ninth World Congress of Cardiology. Says one impressed visitor, Harvard Heart Specialist Bernard Lown: "It is a cardiology city." With pardonable pride, the center's director, Yevgeni Chazov, declares, "I don't think there's another institute in the world that has as many functions...
...Dilemma. Phillips will direct four of the nine main stage productions and co-direct three more. (The schedule also includes five children's shows, adapted from stories by Paul Gallico.) The actors, many of them veterans of the Phillips era at Stratford, work in true repertory: a weekend visitor can see four plays in two days; at its peak during December, the Grand will offer seven main stage shows and three children's plays. With only modest government and corporate support, the company is counting on ticket sales to defray an optimistic 73% of the $3.5 million budget...
Then there's the one about the prisoners who were so familiar with the jokes told in the penitentiary that all they needed to do was call out the number of a particular knee-slapper to keep themselves in stitches. Offering a demonstration for a visitor, the warden called out 61-37-4. The prisoners howled and guffawed. "Now you try one," invited the warden. The visitor called out 53, then 89 and finally 2. No laughter, not a chuckle. The warden shrugged: "I guess it depends on how you tell...