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...third-seeded Harvard women’s water polo team left the Northern Championships with a third-place finish, dropping contests to eventual champion Hartwick and runner-up Brown while defeating Connecticut College and Utica...
...Harvard men finished third out of 11 teams behind Brown and Yale, while the women finished fifth out of 10 behind Brown, Connecticut, Boston College, and Rhode Island...
...most promising sources are objects that were originally sealed against moisture, such as navigational compasses, hourglasses, sextants and telescopes. Other possibilities include buried time capsules, hollow building cornerstones, miniature globes and sealed containers salvaged from a ship that sank in the Missouri River in the mid-1800s. Two venerable Connecticut companies, which have manufactured hollow brass military buttons since the War of 1812, have offered to supply buttons spanning two centuries. "This gives us samples from many different periods of time," says Poths, "and all manufactured in one place." Some efforts, however, have been disappointing. The researchers had high hopes...
...sold 7,400 air-bag-equipped Topaz cars during the 1985 model year, out of total sales of 377,555. Although air bags do little good when a driver gets sideswiped, they have already helped prevent serious injuries, and possibly deaths, in head-on collisions. On a wet Connecticut road, the car of one Traveler's Insurance employee skidded into a truck carrying propane gas, but she walked away with minor bruises...
Among the 3,500 protesters who have been arrested, paid fines or spent short periods in jail are 23 U.S. Congressmen, Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker, Singer Harry Belafonte, Amy Carter and two of Ethel and Robert Kennedy's children, Rory and Douglas. As the protests spread, the House and Senate introduced bills calling for action against South Africa, and Ronald Reagan came up with his own list of sanctions...