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Harvard's defense, over-anxious to show that last Tuesday's containment of an explosive UNH squad was not a fluke, couldn't handle the fast-skating Terriers. In their eagerness to slow down B.U., Jim Liston and Kevin O'Donoghue were caught for holding at 6:19 and 7:06 of the first period...
...send them up when the weather was rough, when the planes were in tough shape, when the birds were walking. The ones who survived would understand the meaning of 'alone.' " Bailey had transferred to the Marines to do his jet flight duty, and wound up, by a felicitous military fluke, as his squadron's chief legal officer. He spent the last 17 months of his Marine hitch prosecuting, defending, judging or investigating military cases. On the side, he apprenticed with a civilian lawyer, a fact that helped him to talk his way into Boston University Law School after his discharge...
...steady 1%. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., too, has noted the rise: the death rate among its policyholders for the first half of this year is up 6%, compared with a previous annual rise among policyholders of about 1%. Some experts suggest that the jump may be a fluke-the result of changes in the way cancer death statistics are collected. Others believe it is an indirect result of a drop in the mortality rate from heart disease, leaving more people susceptible to death from cancer. Whatever the cause of the sudden rise, lung cancer must take a large share...
...deadliest shock to the economy would be a return of sustained double-digit inflation. That likelihood is not easy to gauge. The October leap in wholesale prices seems to have been partly a statistical fluke, caused by difficulty in calculating seasonal adjustments. M. Kathryn Eickhoff, vice president and treasurer of the New York economic consulting firm of Townsend-Greenspan, suggests that the real annual rate of increase may be only about half the 23.9% reported. Still, the October jump was disquieting: it involved not only metals and cars but also farm products, lumber, textiles, clothing, furniture and household durables...
PENN-COLUMBIA--The Lions prove that they are actually a football team and that the Cornell game was not a fluke. Upset in New York. Columbia 28, Penn...