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...shanty towns. An extra 170,000 refugees remain in Mozambique and Zambia. More than half the schools have been closed, and nearly 420,000 school-age blacks are uneducated. A third of the 3 million African-owned herd has been lost through disease and theft. The normally abundant corn crop has been savaged by severe drought; about 200,000 people are dependent on emergency Red Cross food shipments...
Just 18 months ago, Los Angeles won its second consecutive N.L. title, and the same starters are all back. Best rookie crop in baseball joins them. Up from Albuquerque come Mickey Hatcher (.371 batting average), speedster Rudy Law, Kelly (son of Duke) Snider (.304), Bobby Mitchell (.327) and Pedro Guerrero (.333). All in all, a team with few--if any--weaknesses which should win its third flag in four years...
Pappy Hunt may be hoping for a miracle. With four of his top athletes hobbled, and two more in his stable now question marks, Hunt will have to do some shuffling and then rely on a talented crop of distance runners to carry the Crimson past UMass. But the Harvard women have never out-dualed a UMass track squad...
Eighteen players return from last year's disappointing (9-5 EIBL, 22-14 overall) yet potent fourth-place squad. Two that won't be back are now shagging flies for money in the Florida sun, but the way the crop of freshmen are playing, Houston's Larry Brown and Montreal's Mike Stenhouse may not be missed...
...observes Don Johansen, the state's supervisor of secondary education, only about 12% of the college-age population went to college. About half a century later, that figure is estimated at 45.5%. College, says Johansen, "is no longer only for the cream of the crop. In this study, we're comparing 1978 milk to 1928 cream." In 1978 as in 1928, the University of Minnesota accepted for admission any graduate of a Minnesota high school...