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Then came the Northeast Regional of the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament, where Maine had more going for it than just the top seeding. The 4500 faithful at Orono, Maine's Mahaney Diamond certainly didn't hurt the Black Bears' cause. But once again, it looked like Harvard might overcome the disadvantage...
Economics students Thomas Barkin and Leonard Mendonca turned their attention not to the Battle of the Sexes, but to that of the baseball diamond. Barkin explained "The Effects of Free Agency on Major League Baseball," while Mendonca looked at "Racial Discrimination in Major League Baseball...
Game-Winning RBI--Bauer. E--Autiello. LOB--Cornell 4, Harvard 9, 2B--Farrell, Allard. DP--Harvard 2. SB--RiveraE. Farrell. S--RiveraE. IP H R ER BB SO Harvard Doyle W, 4-3 7 1 0 0 3 5 Cornell Diamond L, 2-3 7 8 3 3 3 4 HBP--Held by Doyle...
...major theft is one of the worst disasters that can befall an auction house, since it tends to undermine the trust placed in the institution by the owners of the fine art and other collectibles that it sells. But the missing diamond is only one of several problems now besetting the London-based Sotheby's. Last year the company lost $4.6 million on revenues of $80 million, and now it is fighting a formidable takeover attempt...
...chilly morning in March 1965, a highly unusual gathering took place at Dow Chemical Co.'s headquarters in Midland, Mich. Without any corporate fanfare, Dow scientists met with colleagues from three rival firms, Hooker Chemical, Diamond Alkali and Hercules Powder. On the agenda that day was a discussion of the effects on human health of a family of chemicals known as dioxin. The chemicals, including Agent Orange, later used by the U.S. to defoliate the jungles of Viet Nam, are an unwanted byproduct in the making of herbicides. At the time, most chemists were only vaguely aware of dioxin...