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Defensively, the stickwomen look very solid Junior Juliet Lamont is coming off a good season, and should she have any difficulties, backup Katie Williams is very solid. With the loss of Sara LeBlond to graduation, either Co-Captain Maureen Finn or senior Beth Mullen will have to assume leadership roles as the rest of the defense is made up of second-year players...

Author: By Becky Hartman, | Title: Field Hockey and Four-Leaf Clovers | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...some way to keep away from the action. So let's say the laws were real strict and every eligible man was drafted Right now in the army for every soldier on the front line there are approximately six non-combat people who back him up. Most of the backup jobs require a higher level of skill than the infantry man on the front line. Placement in one job or another, say computers or medical technician, is determined by a test. Many ambitious but disadvantaged young men who might otherwise be placed in a computer training program in the Army...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Draft | 2/19/1982 | See Source »

...contact with the cooling system. The water vaporized and escaped--still radioactive into the atmosphere. As the plant's technicians belatedly tried to lower the water pressure to reduce the leak, a valve stuck, pressure dropped too rapidly and the water in the reactor began to boil. If a backup valve hadn't opened, a "bubble" of steam would have formed within the reactor, possibly uncovering the core--exactly what happened at Three Mile Island in March of 1979. But because the Ginna valve did open, the accident goes down in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) as only a "serious...

Author: By Chuck Lane, | Title: Stacking the Deck for Disaster | 2/11/1982 | See Source »

...active, so quick on his feet, so instinctive. The second year, we eased him in carefully, so as not to break him." Breaking Montana seemed a small danger to Assistant Coach Sam Wyche, a man who can speak of the relative gifts handed out to quarterbacks. He was a backup in the N.F.L. for nine years. "Montana made this fake against the Giants," says Wyche, referring to the first playoff victory over New York. "The linebacker was slackjawed. That's some thing you don't coach. You take credit after it's over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joe Montana: Perfect Timing, Joe: | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

Against the Coast Guard, Lee substituted some of his backup wrestlers, and the Crimson still came away with a lopsided victory. In the best match of the day, freshman Bill Clapps defeated Coast Guard captain Ted Harrap...

Author: By G. ROBERT Strauss, | Title: Matmen Destroy Weekend Opponents; Team Prepares for Tougher Matches | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

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