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...following Saturday, May 11, the Crimson will travel to the Eastern Sprints in Worcester. The enormous (in size, not number) Yale eight has won the Sprints two years running, only the second two-year drought for the Crimson since Parker arrived...
...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...
While these travails are felt most acutely in the U.S., the situation is common to nearly all Western nations. Since the mid-1970s, industrial economies have grown about as well as wheat in a drought, while inflation has expanded dangerously. Even countries that have adapted best to recent economic problems, notably West Germany and Japan, suffer inflation or slow growth. The world money system that functioned like a Swiss watch for a quarter-century has been sending off alarms. Gold, the barbarous relic that Shakespeare called the "common whore of mankind," has become the refuge for a world fearful...
Bougas received thorough support from her teammates in the other five singles positions, including Martha Roberts at second singles, who recovered from her two-match victory drought...
Shortages of oil, food, and gasoline have been headlining the news for years. But there is one shortage that has received scant coverage in the Boston media--the drought of newsprint that has sent newspaper publishers around the country scurrying to the backwoods of Maine and even the hinterlands of Italy in search of the paper gold...