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...were off 6.9%. Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency gave permission to New England's largest power plant, the Brayton Point utility in Somerset, Mass., to conserve more oil by converting two of its four generators to burn low-sulfur coal. The energy supply picture also looked a bit brighter because Texaco announced a new find of natural gas in the Baltimore Canyon off the New Jersey coast...
...believe in omens, then things might look a little brighter than anyone thought for Harvard basketball. It took the Crimson exactly one game to equal its highest point total of last season, with an 87-71 triumph over Catholic University last night...
Workers redistributed the second-choice votes on ballots cast for Fitzgerald, David Kennedy and David Blackman yesterday, as an afternoon that had looked gloomy for Koocher at the start grew progressively brighter...
...area of the Indian Ocean and South Atlantic'' between South Africa and Antarctica. Officials disclosed that sensing devices on a U.S. satellite had detected the explosion. What the sensors ''saw'' was a flash of light, which dimmed for a microsecond, then became brighter. It was interpreted to be the tell-tale signature of a two-kiloton nuclear blast...
Which is the smartest race on earth? Many nominate the Jews, whose intellectual achievements are out of proportion to their small numbers. C.P. Snow thinks the Japanese may be even brighter. Such musings are best muttered at late night bull sessions. In public, ranking races by intelligence is apt to smack of simple racism...