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...rover," which has caught on with many other League teams, is too much in the nature of a gamble for the Crimson. But while it is hard for the average fan to appreciate, Ivy coaches paid their respects to Harvard's defense by selecting Cantabs to four of the eleven All-Ivy defense spots last season...
...execution of this theory depends on the "position responsibilities." Defense is more than just eleven guys trying to get to the ball carrier as quickly as possible. The main job for the players is to hold their areas and disrupt any opponents' moves into their territories. The moves are lateral, along the line of scrimmage, not vertical, into the enemy backfield...
Barrier Post. Con Thien is also important because it is likely to be one of the posts along the barrier that Defense Secretary Robert McNamara said would be constructed south of the DMZ. Already it is the western terminus of a 600-yd.-wide swath that was bulldozed for eleven miles through the scrub brush and elephant grass earlier in the year to serve as a free-fire zone in which anything that moves is shot at. Though details of the new barrier remain secret, it is assumed that it will be an extension of the present line over...
...Shah worries more about water than about criticism. "There is just not enough of it," he says. To make use of what there is, he has already built six major dams; eleven others are under construction. With intensive irrigation, the Shah believes that he could triple Iran's present arable land-now only 10% of its total area-and produce enough food to sustain a population of 75 million. To do so, however, will require more water than Iran's rainfall and rivers can provide, and the Shah intends to get it from the sea. He is negotiating...
...since Voltaire came to town in 1758 to escape persecution in Geneva has the French border village of Ferney-subsequently renamed Ferney-Voltaire-seen so much excitement. The current fuss is being caused by another refugee from Geneva, controversial Bernard Cornfeld, 40, an American expatriate who has built his eleven-year-old Investors Overseas Services into the largest mutual-fund sales organization outside the U.S. When Bernie Cornfeld decided to move his Swiss-based I.O.S. across the border eight months ago, wags mindful of the 18th century precedent started referring to the town as "Bernie-Voltaire...