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However, a new $1 million track was not enough to catapult the men's team past the New England indoor champion Huskies, who tallied 86 points to the Crimson...
...sinister plot by retired but fanatical and influential generals to take over the world. They've got money, brains and connections everywhere. And they've been shipping guns to terrorist groups all over the world, and moreover they are planning a series of assassinations and uprisings which will soon catapult the military into power. Converse is cynical, after all he's got his cozy lawyer's world and it does sound like a paranoid's fantasy, but then the friend drops a name--General George Marcus Delavane (read mad antagonist). This man Converse hates--Delavane sent him on a suicide...
Instead it took the efforts of one of American greatest writers--Eudora Welty--to catapult a Harvard University Press publication to the New York Times bestseller list...
First on this morning's agenda for the acquamen is the 1650-yd, freestyle, an event which, if all goes well, should catapult the squad back into first place, at least temporarily. Roberts and sophomore Tim Ford are ranked first and second, respectively...
...Cuba as ambassador in 1979 after he apparently angered Brezhnev by calling for a crackdown on official corruption. Four months before Brezhnev's death, Vorotnikov was summoned home. At last June's Central Committee meeting, he was awarded a nonvoting seat on the Politburo, only to catapult last week into the inner circle ahead of five more senior men. Said a Western diplomat: "Vorotnikov's rapid rise indicates that there are definite plans for him." One possibility: he might eventually take over from Premier Nikolai Tikhonov...