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...meticulous selection process bore fruit. Most observers agree with Hockey Historian Stan Fischler, who says, "There has never been such talent on a U.S. team as this year. And they are every bit as well coached as in '80. Vairo can match [former Head Coach] Herb Brooks at the blueprint table, and then top him with psychological motivation." Says Ken Morrow, an '80 alumnus who now plays dogged defense for the New York Islanders: "The 1984 team is more talented than we were, in speed, skating skill, stick handling and goal tending...
Nevertheless to Lewis, the fall's various developments are not unrelated. "I think they're all part of something bigger," she says. "There's clearly a general change--that's been in the growing stages for a long time and is only now bearing fruit--as far as making Harvard belong to women...
...Tampa, a few minutes away from fields of ruined fruit, a Government forecaster sounded a bit defensive. "It was practically impossible to forecast," said NWS Meteorologist David Rittenberry. The freeze, he added, "just came rolling right in." According to weather experts, high-altitude wind patterns shifted so that cold Arctic air, instead of warming gradually as it drifted east over the U.S., rushed due south...
...damage to agriculture was more serious. In Texas, 3,500 growers of Valencia oranges and Ruby Red grapefruit are rushing to pick and process their fruit for juice. Their losses could total $50 million nonetheless, and the trees may be seriously damaged. Nowhere are the economic stakes bigger than in Florida, where 75% of U.S. citrus fruit is grown. It is believed that a quarter of the nearly ripe crop, worth about $250 million, was wrecked by temperatures as low as 16°. "It was just like Pearl Harbor," says Everett Fischer, general manager of Winter Garden Citrus Growers...
...hundred collected stories by Colette make for a sumptuous display, rather like a table spread with the fruit and wine she celebrated in her books: "Late-ripening cherries, rosy peaches, thin-skinned Marseilles figs, misty hothouse grapes and champagne shuddering in carafes of heavy crystal...