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After finishing his set speech, the Californian deftly fielded a volley of questions from the floor. Did the candidate have any presidential ambitions? "It's taken me all my life," he allowed, "to get up the nerve to do what I'm doing-and that's as far as my dreams go." If, as many professionals predict, Reagan unseats Democratic Governor Pat Brown in November, his dreams-and the Creative Society-may go farther...
...American attackers know no such frugality of fire. The APCs grind to a halt; there is a rumble from the rear; and volley after volley of 105-mm. shells whispers overhead to crash down among the enemy in an endless, earthshaking, invisible whiplash of steel. Then the U.S. warplanes arrive, diving just ahead of the APCs to rend the forest with their 20-mm. cannon and 2.75 rockets. The APCs move forward into the smoke, are stopped again by a pocket of fire. The U.S. commander barks into his radio. In response, five miles away a battery of huge...
...tough first match captain Dave Benjamin beat Clay Hamlin, 5-7, 6-1, 6-4. The Penn junior followed his service to the net to consistently score on the volley. Hamlin's net game remained strong throughout the match, but Benjamin was lobbing well and he got even better as the match progressed. Benjamin simply wore his opponent down with his combination of lobs, drop shots, and fantastic retrieving...
Appleby and Davis beat Heckscher and Coonley in the first doubles, 6-2, 6-4. The Crimson pair dominated the match at the net, often returning slams on the volley, to overwhelm the Quaker duo. Todd Wilkinson and Jose Gonzalex beat George and Levin in the second doubles, 12-10. And Dinny Adams and Dan Kleinman stopped Serues and Elliot Abrams in the third match...
...Princeton needed only one more match for the victory, Adams pulled out a tense fourth game in which neither player could maintain a lead of more than two points. At 13-12 for Adams, they cautiously exchanged deep strokes for a couple of minutes before Gay tinned a drop volley. Adams whipped a back-hand cross-court past him for the game-winning point...