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...16th century ponies of the conquistadors. These are the great nephews and cousins, long inbred, many of them descended from domesticated animals turned loose in the 1930's, when forage was scarce on the Dust Bowl plains. They are being stalked here in Colorado's Piceance Basin and other states because they have been adjudged a peril to the Western range. Since 1971, when free-roaming horses were put under tight federal protection, they have been multiplying with Malthusian consequences, gobbling up valuable sheep and cattle forage and leaving the range threadbare. Complains Colorado Rancher Dean Burke...
...Harvard students cheered lustily last weekend at the numerous Princeton-Harvard encounters here in Cambridge, one of Harvard's most outstanding and successful teams--the women's sailing squad--capped off a stellar season in relative obscurity by handily winning the Victorian Coffee Urn Regatta in the Charles River Basin...
...Harvard women's varsity sailing team capped a successful 1981 fall slate in fine form this weekend, dunking nine other teams en route to copping the Victorian Coffee Urn at the New England Fall Championship regatta on the Harbor Basin...
...straight course with the first one across the finish line declared the winner, boats in each event in the Head start at ten-second intervals and race 5000 meters (about three miles) upstream from the down-stream edge of the Boston University boat house (in the Charles River Basin) to a point in the Metropolitan District Commission park near the Ramada Inn. Keeping track of the times and comparing them, a computer can then show who won the particular event...
Galatia lies on the eastern edge of the Illinois basin, a 25 million-acre, spoon-shaped, subterranean shelf of coal that has made the state the nation's fourth largest producer. For almost a century now, the basin has been union turf. While only 44% of all U.S. coal is dug by members of the United Mine Workers of America, down from 70% a decade ago, some 99% of Illinois coal is union mined. The legendary John L. Lewis rose to the presidency of the U.M.W. as a legislative lobbyist from the union's Illinois District 12, which...