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...Green Revolution were specifically created by plant geneticists to thrive under the optimum growing conditions of recent years. They are particularly vulnerable to vagaries of weather. A decline in moisture can significantly reduce their yields; they can also become susceptible to blights and pests. It was a bout of wet, chilly air during the growing season that apparently touched off the Middle Ages' outbreaks of St. Anthony's fire -excruciatingly painful convulsions and gangrenous hands and feet that are caused by a fungus which grows on rye in cold, damp weather. Some changes, to be sure, could...
Fight promoters would undoubtedly agree. Despite the five-week postponement of the fight, Gentleman Ali's charisma attracted enough closed-circuit TV viewers to recoup the $12 million invested in the bout-good news for Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko. who personally plowed $11.4 million into the match. Attendance at U.S. theaters, however, was far lower than hoped for, and the gross take will fall far short of the $40 million goal. The fighters' purses-$5 million each-were guaranteed in advance...
...women's singles, Radcliffe's Wiki Royden and Marie Adams will challenge past Head champ Gail Pearson. Later in the day, Harvard House boats will suffer down the course for the intermediate eights title, which is bound to be more a test of endurance and a bout of coxswain's roulette than a rowing tiff...
Harvard's Ben Bryan will be tending the Crimson goal once again. Home team soccer fans are hoping that Bryan's performance today will at least equal his exceptional work as goalkeeper in Wednesday's tie with UConn. Bryan was credited with more than 20 saves in that bout...
...before Congress to explain why he had pardoned Richard Nixon. He met with 22 of the nation's mayors and pledged to sign an $11.8 billion mass-transit bill. He reorganized his fumbling White House staff. Though he was obviously distracted by his wife's bout with cancer and visited her every day at the hospital, he also dined with congressional friends, threw a party for retiring members of Congress and was host at a white-tie-and-medals reception for the Washington diplomatic corps. It was a brisk display of a Chief Executive in action and, despite...