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Meanwhile, in the Harvard batter's box, a super mound performance by Ravinas coupled with the Crimson's ever-dwindling hit totals to produce nothing short of ineptitude at the plate...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Ravinas's Three-Hitter Vaults B.C. Past Crimson Nine, 4-0 | 4/13/1978 | See Source »

...first missed signal came in the first inning. After Stewart had gotten out of a three-hit, bases loaded jam tally-free, leadoff batter Peter Bannish walked on four pitches from a temporarily demoralized Ravinas. Two pitches later, Bannish was thrown out at second easily when Charlie Santos-Buch missed a sign to sacrifice...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Ravinas's Three-Hitter Vaults B.C. Past Crimson Nine, 4-0 | 4/13/1978 | See Source »

...elevators leading to the control tower 16 floors above. They disembarked at the 14th floor, climbed up a huge parabolic antenna, beating it with hammers as they went, and smashed the slanted windows of the tower. Six rioters shinnied through the broken windows and proceeded to batter radar and communications consoles. Five frightened technicians who had been in the tower fled to the roof, from which they were evacuated by a police helicopter. The swift demonstration paralyzed Narita. Casualties numbered 34 police and 20 demonstrators injured, including one youth who was severely burned when a fire bomb exploded prematurely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Black Day at Narita Airport | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

Third baseman Leo Kalinowski shoved a single to right with one out and was driven home a couple of pitches later by number nine batter Mike Stockley's double down the left field line. Again, hesitation on the relay allowed the run to score...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Brown Twirls Crimson Nine Past UMass, 3-2 | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

...magic. Public problems are to Washington what oil and gas are to Texas. In Washington the fuel crisis that is but a specter everywhere else takes the shape of a new Department of Energy. Somehow the city does not need to fear the economic cycles that batter the rest of a country. Why not? Well, as the New Republic put it, "Washingtonians live outside of the law of supply and demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Boomtown on the Potomac | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

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