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...innings later, Gonyar stoned, and the Crimson was awestruck. The backup left fielder hadn't even been on the Black Bear varsity much of the year, but his leadoff drive over the fence in the 12th was undoubtedly the single biggest swing in Maine's year. And it destroyed Harvard...
...program of strategic defense should be launched unless a comprehensive arms-control program that places sharp limits on offensive weapons is established first. That way, strategic defense might conceivably serve as a useful backup to traditional deterrence, an extra insurance against war breaking out by accident (a space-based American death ray might knock out an errant Soviet missile, for instance, without necessarily touching off a full-scale Soviet attack) or against war being started by a reckless newcomer to the nuclear-weapons club...
...manned maneuvering unit (MMU), the jet-powered Buck Rogers contraption that enabled astronauts to make the historic, untethered space walk on Challenger's February flight. Mission Specialist James van Hoften, 39, a onetime hot-tub salesman with a Ph.D. in hydraulic engineering, will act as an emergency backup...
...goal, second team All-Ivy goalie Krickett Johnson returns with added confidence, while senior Beth Mullen puts on the backup pads after a stint last year at defense...
...Backup goalie Tracy Kimmel knelt at the blue-line and snapped one last picture of the group that had been at the heart of Harvard women's ice hockey over the past several seasons. They were not clad in their familiar Crimson jerseys, but instead in scarlet mesh jerseys enscribed with "Women's Hockey All Stars...