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Looking for an offbeat investment prospect? Well, consider a St. Paul company called American Hoist & Derrick. A typically depressed heavy-equipment manufacturer, Amhoist lost $21.8 million last year and is expected to wind up in the red again this year. Two of its primary markets, the petroleum and timber industries, remain sluggish. Its stock has been sagging in the bull market and now sells for $15, vs. a high of $26, reached...
Cornell started off with a 28-7 loss at Penn, moved on to a 60-7 drubbing at the hands of Colgate, and last week fell to Cincinnati, 48-20. Halfback Derrick Harmon, Cornell's only real star, has been solid (242 yards on 55 carries and 19 receptions for 149 yards), but he has to be outstanding for his team to go places. And so far, this squad has gone no place...
Cornell (4-6, 3-4). Tailback Derrick Harmon is unquestionably the league's best returning runner. He raced to 903 yards in eight games en route to All-Ivy. Academic All-American and honorable mention All-American honors. Harmon will have to do it all again this year, as the Big Red has a very little passing game...
...move. I slip the rabbit snare over his tail and jerk him out of the water. But as I get older, I find the fish looking at me, so nice, and then I say, 'Go on, have another chance,' and I throw it back." Derrick Worthington, 49, a former Royal Marine who has been a water bailiff for 14 years on Wales' Pembrokeshire rivers, feels that "any bailiff who says the adrenaline isn't flowing when he is out stalking is lying." Worthington spends up to 80 hours a week stalking riverbanks for poachers, using night...
...only comedian who dresses like a rock star.") Richard Avedon has photographed Eddie for the cover of Rolling Stone; in its September issue, Playgirl will proclaim him one of the ten sexiest men in America; he has thunderstormed his family and friends with costly gifts. But not even Sir Derrick of the Round Table can fend off the demands on King Eddie's time. "I have no privacy at all," Eddie notes solemnly. "It used to be that I couldn't walk down the street in peace. Now I'm followed by people even when...