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With Halas in left, right field looks like a three-way dogfight between the same combatants as last year--strong-hitter Charlie Santos-Buch (.313), lefty Billy Blood (.269) and some kinda fleet-footed Bobby Jenkins (.320). Football retread Brian Buckley could bag his designated hitter chores to do some outfielding...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Harvard Baseball '78: This May Be 'Next Year' | 3/22/1978 | See Source »

...crucial key to the Germans' baffling Enigma machine in World War II. For Ronald, youngest and most celebrated of the four, it meant translating a Roman Catholic English Bible-Old and New Testaments-from the Latin Vulgate. For Eldest Brother Edmund it meant a painstaking ascension to the Fleet Street pantheon as editor of Punch. Wilfred, the third-born son, chose a different sort of test. An Edwardian dandy who wore silk ties from London's Burlington Arcade, he took a vow of poverty as a workingman's Anglican priest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Family Fair | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

...Harvard Sailing team launched its spring season over the weekend with a victory worthy of champagne-bottle smashing, as it cruised past a 15-boat fleet to win the "A" and "B" divisions of the Admiral Moore Trophy on the choppy waters of Long Island Sound...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Sailors Navigate Moore Trophy Win | 3/14/1978 | See Source »

...service to Marxism's egalitarian ideals. But all they can do is complain and joke. One popular story in the Soviet Union tells of Party Boss Brezhnev inviting his mother to his elegant villa in the Crimea. He shows her the lavish furnishings, his yachts, art treasures and the fleet of foreign cars he has received as gifts from visiting heads of state. After a table-groaning banquet, he asks: "Well, Mama, what do you think? Not bad for your little boy?" To which the old woman replies: "My son. it's very impressive. But what if the Communists come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Socialism: Trials and Errors | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

That will merely be the start. Until now, LNG has arrived in the U.S. only in the form of small shipments made to Boston's Distrigas Corp. to supplement supplies during New England's chilly winters. But from next week on, one of a fleet of nine El Paso tankers will deposit LNG at Cove Point roughly every 60 hours. There, the supercold liquid, which arrives at a temperature of 259° F. below zero, will be heated until it turns back into gas, then piped through the networks of Columbia Gas System and Pittsburgh-based Consolidated Natural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: A Fast Fix for a Scarce Fuel | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

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