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Harvard's season opens on September 20 at Navy with the Eastern League Tournament. The following weekend, the Crimson goes up against the best of the West--including defending NCAA champion Stanford, 1984 champ UCal-Berkeley, and nationally third-ranked Pepperdine--at the Brown Invitational tourney...
Harvard's season opens on September 20 at Navy with the Eastern League Tournament. The following weekend, the Crimson goes up against the best of the West--including defending NCAA champion Stanford, 1984 champ UCal-Berkeley, and nationally third-ranked Pepperdine--at the Brown Invitational tourney...
...land in the U.S. can grow so much corn as this area of central Illinois. Herman Warsaw, the national corn-growing champ from Saybrook, took a 30-acre plot of ground that produced 38 bu. per acre in 1941 and tended it so exquisitely that last year it yielded 370 bu. per acre. The Government cuts down acreage, and farmers, fighting honorably for position in capitalism's markets, devise new fertilizers and hybrids and with God's help do better and better on less and less land...
Before he became a character in American literature, Ken Kesey was a novelist. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) and Sometimes a Great Notion (1964) put him in the company of the young and the promising. He was a big man (a former wrestling champ at the University of Oregon) with a big talent. His family roots were in farming and logging; the rest is classic American tumbleweed. From Wallace Stegner's writing classes at Stanford, Kesey drifted to the San Francisco Bay Area, the playpen of countercultures. A bit young to be a founding beatnik...
...habits die hard," said John McEnroe last month. Not that he hasn't tried to kill them off. The once supreme tennis star and undefeated champ of testiness on and off the court, McEnroe dropped out of the game six months ago, vowing to change his attitude -- and his game -- for the better. But when the reformed McEnroe made his long-awaited return to the pro circuit last week at the Volvo International tournament in Stratton Mountain, Vt., some of his old habits surfaced again...