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Admittedly the super-sleek '74 edition of the Crimson thinclads has to be given the edge against an Army team that dropped a 90-78 decision to Manhattan last week. But Army has its share of 9.7 dash men and a bumper crop of under 15 second hurdlers, who could each be good for 15 points...
...than permanent. Much of the global surge in food prices over the past two years has been the result of plain bad luck. A series of disastrous crop failures in 1972, caused by phenomenally foul weather round the world, aggravated shortages of wheat, corn, soybeans and other animal feeds. Bumper crops now in prospect in the U.S., the Soviet Union and Australia should at least slow the blistering rise in food prices after midyear...
...most effective coyote poisons - Compound 1080 (monofluoride acetate) and the M44 (a spring-loaded tube containing sodium cyanide)-sheepmen have been howling loudly. They claim that a burgeoning coyote population is threatening their already risky business (which operates on a 2% profit margin) with ruin. They have begun attaching bumper stickers to their automobiles with legends like: EAT AMERICAN LAMB. 10 MILLION COYOTES CAN'T BE WRONG...
Sagan's enthusiasms are widely accepted in the U.S., even by people who have never heard of him. California beach blonds zip the freeways, sporting bumper stickers like: FLYING SAUCERS ARE REAL. The Gallup poll reports that 51% of the American people believe in UFOS. Even the fusty National Academy of Sciences was led recently to admit that contact with other civilizations "is no longer something beyond our dreams but a natural event in the history of mankind that will perhaps occur in the lifetime of many...
...Wolfpack and their constituents, adopting the Avis we-try-harder mentality, prepared for the contest with high spirit and keen concentration. Bumper stickers in Raleigh admonished: STOP THE WALTON GANG. Though the event was televised nationally, some 4,000 State fans journeyed by chartered plane, bus, private car and even motorcycle to St. Louis, where the Shootout was held on neutral ground. Coach Norm Sloan claimed that his team was doing nothing very special to gear up: "We really don't have anything to prove," he said before leaving for St. Louis. But 7 ft. 4 in. Center...