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...through the snowiest December since 1947, and the traffic-snarling snowfalls gave the angular shapes of the town houses on Commonwealth Avenue a specially softened calm. Houston's golf courses were flecked with executives basking in record warm temperatures. Nippy winds scoured clean the usually smoggy Los Angeles basin, offering Southern Californians breathtaking panoramas that they rarely see. The vagaries of the weather matched the novelty of the national mood, as Americans took stock of 1970 and looked to the year ahead. However tentatively, the feeling was that things have been so bad that maybe, just maybe, they...
...boats of Harvard lightweights will stage their annual Fall race at 3:30 p.m. today in the Charles River Basin. The finish line will be near Joyce Chen...
Wednesday's race began in the Basin with a standard racing start, and continued fairly competitively all the way. The boats were chosen to be as equal as possible, and they worked out as units for only a week...
...Arabs began in the 7th century with the appearance of Mohammed, along with his religion Islam (submission to God's will) and his 80,000-word book of holy writ, the Koran. Under Mohammed's exhortations, the flaming sword of Islam extended Moslem dominion across the Mediterranean basin. Arab armies broke the Byzantine and Persian empires and carried the crescent emblem of Mohammedanism as far west as Spain and southern France and as far east as India and the Chinese border. Saladin, a Kurdish warrior raised in 12th century Arab Damascus, defended the Holy Land against two Crusades...
...Mediterranean basin is the most dramatic theater in a campaign to extend Soviet power and influence over much of the globe. Moving sometimes by the implied threat of force, but more often by military aid, trade and diplomacy, the Soviets have planted their ensign in most of the world's oceans and are expanding diplomatic beachheads in Asia, Africa and even the Americas. During the past five years, Soviet economic aid to non-Communist countries has doubled to $485 million a year, while military aid has increased from $350 million to about $500 million a year-even excluding...