A roundrobin challenge allowed me to use this Hawaiian appliqué as a centerpiece.

Orr, in the first row behind the photographers, said something and Smart stepped to him and pushed him with both hands. . . . Sending Smart to the showers—or instructing arena security to eject the fan—would have been a move in the name of safety.

In China, where a subcolonial state had resulted from a series of unequal treaties imposed upon her, the Russian Communists found fertile soil for the reception of their ideas, and thus prepared the way for their subversive infiltration.

Mary will program Tuesday’s festivities.