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...sport is not for the faint of heart or the weak of wallet. Skates can cost upwards of $100, gloves $65, shin pads $35, protective pants $50, helmet $22, elbow pads $20, shoulder pads $25, a stick $8, and other accessories $25. The parents of a small-scale Bernie Parent have to shell out even more. Goalie leg pads alone cost up to $150. Yet even in the depths of recession, business has never been better. At the Boston Bruins Pro Shop, sales of equipment are up 57% over last winter. At Atlanta's Igloo Ice Skating Rink, parents...
...Crimson racketmen will try to avenge their last league loss to Princeton and keep a faint hope for a share of the Ivy title when they do battle with a powerful Quaker team in Philadelphia this afternoon...
...computer-generated mosaic of Betelgeuse was only 2½ in. in diameter, but detailed enough to show faint markings that the scientists think may be large hot spots in its atmosphere, perhaps gases erupting violently from the interior. Nothing on quite so dramatic a scale has been observed on the sun, which is in a more sedate stage of its evolution...
Certainly there was no hard evidence to support the rumors that Brezhnev was on the brink of physical or political disablement. Nonetheless, a few faint signs and portents over the past two months pointed to a possible diminution of Brezhnev's vigor and perhaps even of his commanding position in the Kremlin. Some observers at the Vladivostok summit meeting with Gerald Ford thought that Brezhnev was not his usual doughty, ebullient self. Although he held up well during his initial seven-hour meeting with the U.S. President, he slept late the following day and looked peaked. In Paris...
With the Brezhnev visit now delayed indefinitely, there is a new opportunity for Kissinger to push ahead with talks leading to a further pullback of Israeli troops on the Sinai and Golan fronts. Cairo's mood last week reflected a faint new hope that he might succeed...