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DIED. John L. Marshall, 43, nationally known orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist who served as a consultant to the U.S. Olympic ski team; in the crash of a private plane taking him to the Winter Games at Lake Placid...
After the oil crisis began in 1973, the French government decided on a crash nuclear program and signed a licensing agreement to build pressurized water reactors adapted from a Westinghouse design. Already the country's nuclear-generated electricity is proving to be 45% cheaper than power from oil-fired plants. By 1985 France expects to reduce its oil-import bill by 28%; at today's prices that means cutting $7 billion from the $25 billion cost...
...speeds increase, the "aperture" (the correct angle of approach into the turns) decreases and drivers of the two-and four-man sleds must steer onto the proper line within a fraction of a second or risk a crash. In one turn, dubbed "Shady," the sleds are whipped through a 150° turn that drops 36 ft. The resulting slingshot effect pushes the sleds up to 75 m.p.h. and subjects their crews to 4.5-G stresses (astronauts experience 5 Gs at blast-off). According to one driver, crewmen have blacked out on the Lake Placid course...
...Hawks' hot hands a patriotic Harvard defense; perhaps in honor of the opening ceremonies of the Olympics, the Crimson stood rigidly at attention throughout, watching the Hawks repeatedly crash the offensive boards and soar to a 43-36 halftime lead...
...Fleming, Harvard's leading scorer with 19, ended the half on a satisfying note, with a crash dunk at the buzzer, but even that could not make up for a desultory 20 minutes of hoop...