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Harvard could do it with a recovery similar to the one the 1971 team made if Dartmouth stumbles against either red-hot Brown or Penn. Before you start printing up "We're the Champs" bumper stickers, however, let's take another lesson from history...
Other players say the body English, the nudging, gunching and infinite alternations of the ways to flip the flipper and score points off the thumper-bumper make the game a combination of, say, chess (brainwork), hockey (physical coordination) and lovemaking (sensitivity). Concludes Roger C. Sharpe, author of a new, definitive book called Pinball: "It takes years of practice every...
...fair price is what the fight is all about. From 1974 through 1976, the farmer saw prices rise higher and higher as he found markets-at home or abroad-for just about everything he grew. But with worldwide bumper crops this year, the U.S. farmer has watched prices plummet to a five-year low: down 7% from 1976. Wheat, which sold for $2.92 per bu. last year, is bringing $2.55 in Kansas City. Corn has dropped from $2.75 per bu. to $1.80 in Chicago, soybeans from a high of $10.45 last spring...
Princeton stands at 1-4, while Harvard is 3-2 and--as the bumper sticker says--"IN MOTION." But both history and a realistic look at the respective football battalions indicate that today's game will be anything but one-sided...
...consumers who are paying much more than their interstate brethren and have seen prices escalate drastically, gas bills are an irritating burden. For at least a few, the costs have become intolerable. This is one reason why, during last winter's gas shortage in the North, Southerners flaunted bumper stickers reading: LET THE YANKEE BASTARDS FREEZE. The town of Crystal City, Texas, is not a typical case-but it is an instructive one. For more than two weeks, the 8,000 citizens of Crystal City have been doing without natural gas. It was cut off after the town refused...