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Halfway through the regular season's final fortnight, the 10-2-2 Crimson has been far more successful winning games than watching scoreboards. Harvard has claimed the first two of its final four contests, but victories by Princeton and the University of Massachusetts have prevented the stickwomen from gaining ground in either the Ivy race or their quest for a berth in the NCAA Championship tournament...
...Reagan juices were flowing when the President sat down a fortnight ago at his ranch to give one of his radio exhortations. When he saw the mike, he was seized by a latent actor's impulse to perform. And because the topic of the hour was the Polish government's move to outlaw Solidarity, his molten aversion to Communism bubbled to the surface. To test the sound equipment and his own pipes, he said firmly: "My fellow Americans, yesterday the Polish government, a military dictatorship, a bunch of no-good lousy bums...
...those natural polluters, the Atlantic Richfield Co. (ARCO) ordered up two pyramidal traps, the first of which was installed a fortnight ago. Placed over an area with a large concentration of leeps, they will sit on the sea floor like upside-down funnels, collecting gas and oil. The natural gas is siphoned off through a 6-in.-wide pipe that runs along the ocean bottom to shore. The oil will be stored in tanks within the pyramids and periodically emptied by ships. The project is expected to yield...
What a difference two weeks make A fortnight ago the Harvard women's soccer team returned from Brunswick. Maine with a losing record and a scoring slump that seemed to suffocate the entire team...
...staff of 56 people have sent out buy orders for more than 1,000 blocks of stock. Each block contained at least 5,000, and sometimes more than 10,000 shares. Rolland estimates that the Chemical Bank portfolio has gained $750 million in value during the past frenetic fortnight...