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...successful cartel, says any definition, must be able to control production and thereby set prices in good and bad times. The failure of OPEC to do that now makes it a sort of fair-weather cartel, strong in the late 1970s when the world's economies were buoy ant and had high demand for its oil, but weak now when Europe and the U.S. are less dependent upon its energy...
...often does in this Rivalry, a little bit of magic propelled Harvard to a 22-7 Upset. Sophomore Jim Callinan (who this year bettered the single-season Harvard rushing record) sacked up 73 yeards on the ground, and classmate Pete Coppinger (this season's captain) snared two interceptions to buoy the Crimson past the stunned Bulldogs and 70,000 incredulous observers...
Radcliffe sent seven boats into the fray, none of which escaped without mishap--one boat hit a buoy at the start, one scraped a bridge on the way, while one steered clear of everything on the course, even the finish line. But in the end, the first boat finished third, closely tailing BU and Smith College throughout the two-and-a-half mile race...
...festivities began at 10 a.m., when all 30 boats flocked towards the MIT boathouse and coxswains frantically tried to find the buoy marking the starting line. The shells began the race, staggered 10 seconds apart...
...lapsed into a state of mild chaos by the time the day's races were over. Team representatives frenetically tried to find out how their boats had fared, and regatta officials met to consider protests entered by the crews and assess penalties to crews and scullers for buoy violations. The scorers added ten seconds for each buoy beyond which the boat might stray, and then corrected the standings in each category accordingly...