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Harvard's top result came from runner up Paula Newnham, who ran a brisk 17:14 despite laboring with a slight sprain. Eighth-place finisher Carla Amble of Harvard had her best race since coming back from last year's sidelining injury with a time...
...take this turn real tightly, like put your starboard oars over into forbidden water. But careful, if the boat goes outside a buoy, bang, that's a ten-second penalty. And you bet they watch you. Oh yeah, when you make the corner, look out--there's often a brisk wind and strong current that sends a couple boats onto the rocks every year...
Proctor Hasan Kayali of Holworthy East, who won the race in a brisk 7:53.6, said he was disappointed that so few freshmen took part...
Gail, 35, is a brisk woman. Commuting from Haverhill, Mass, leaves her only six hours a day in Cambridge in which to accomplish all Harvard-related chores. Married at 19, she was divorced two years ago. "I had a 16-year marriage. I think the tensions associated with this particular experience made it just the straw that broke the camel's back...
Peterson recited a doleful string of 20th century U.S. examples to prove that "we are losing some of our innovative juice." In the 1950s, U.S. spending for research and development was rising at a brisk average rate of 14% a year, but in the entire four years from 1973 to 1977, R. and D. spending rose only a nearly invisible .8%. The Commerce Department issued 68,000 patents last year, down from 70,000 in 1967. Worse, 25,500 of the 1977 patents went to foreigners, vs. 14,700 ten years earlier; in the key field of business and accounting...