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...speed of 33 knots. It carries one pair of surface-to-air missile launchers forward and another aft, each pair with its individual radar-guidance and fire-control unit. Towering atop the Kresta II is its big Top Sail surveillance radar, designed to spot enemy ships and planes. One back-to-back search radar unit tracks targets for Kresta II's principal weapons: eight surface-to-surface missiles housed in tubes on either side of the ship's bridge. The missiles reportedly have a range of 150 miles and can carry either conventional or nuclear warheads...
...four evil dudes that Harvard was basically concerned with last weekend turned out to be somewhat less terrifying than the Crimson had originally anticipated. It was Harvard's shocking offensive ineptness, and a ballhandling magician from Boston named Reginald Bird that sent the Crimson home emptyhanded from the yearly back-to-back crushers for the fourth consecutive winter...
...Tiger captain Ray Huard said Wednesday night. "It hurts us more and more each year." Last spring Princeton was 14-2 in District II but could not go because Cornell was selected. This season's record meant that Princeton had produced 20-victory seasons back-to-back for the first time in the modern era. Pitcher Jack Hittson was 9-0, a Princeton record, and Huard hit five home runs, also a record. Both are seniors who've been on the team all three years that Princeton has been shafted. Harvard certainly didn't play great baseball...
...championship contest was purely a pitchers' duel as Cornell right-hander John Geise matched Kelly by holding Harvard to only six hits through seven innings. But back-to-back hits by Dan DeMichele and Pete Varney and an error by second baseman Bob Witkoski cost the Big Red the game...
Chalking up its 20th victory of the year, the Crimson became the first Harvard squad since the 1915-16 teams to have back-to-back 20-win seasons...