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...after punting from the Yale 40 and 32 on consecutive drives midway through the first quarter, Harvard didn't penetrate into field goal range until the game's closing seconds, when a last-ditch effort to end an eight-quarter scoring drought in The Game fell short, as time expired with the ball on the Eli seven...
...Mather, 19-6. But the Bellboys squad and their supporters didn't really care, because Lowell quarterback Harlan Levine found the endzone with no time remaining in the game and tallied the first score for his team since 1978. Levine's touchdown run ended the longest House football scoring drought in Harvard history...
Forwards Kate Martin, Maureen Finn and Betsy Torg led the four-goal Crimson downpour, ending a two-game scoring drought. The Crimson took the lead late in the first half on a Finn penalty stroke and never fell behind, upping their record...
...nervous Soviet grain traders are saying that the yield may plunge to a calamitous 170 million tons, or 28% less than the 236 million-ton goal set forth in the current five-year plan. The chief reasons for the pessimism are drought in the Ukraine, the Volga Valley and elsewhere plus chronic agricultural mismanagement. Soviets quip that the first member of the Politburo to die will be blamed for the mess in agriculture, but it is no laughing matter. Says Marshall Goldman, the associate director of Harvard's Russian Research Center: "The Soviet Union finds itself with a disaster...
...gently rolling plains of southern Russia and the Ukraine, stunted stalks of wheat and corn lay flat on the rich black earth, blighted by drought and wind. In the lower Volga region, rain mercilessly pelted burgeoning grain; harvesting combines stood idle as farmers watched the crop sink into the mud. The forecast is bleak this summer in the kolkhozy (collective farms) and sovkhozy (state farms) of the Soviet grain belt, where capricious weather has caused a third consecutive bad harvest-with an anticipated shortfall of 51 million metric tons in Soviet grain production...