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LINEBACKER (2)--The position hit hardest by graduation, this could be the Achilles heel of the defense. Harvard graduated the best linebacker pair in the Ivies--Joe Azelby and Andy Nolan. As if that weren't enough, replacements Kevin Garvin, and Craig Uecker also picked up sheepskins last June. All told, Harvard loses a third of its tackles and 10 of 34 quarterback sacks. Filling the gap will be senior Dan Bennett (6-ft., 195 lbs.) and junior Brent Wilkinson (6-ft., 2-in., 220 lbs.). Teammates have been impressed with Bennett and Wilkinson, but neither has much experience. Look...
...Hardest hit was an area near the town of Roundup (pop. 2,119) in southeastern Montana, where 37 homes were destroyed by a blaze that began in the arid Bull Mountains, sending up columns of smoke that drifted into Billings, 30 miles to the south. "It sounded like a jet engine coming through," said Dana Lynam, 34, after a wall of flames attacked her house and melted nearby mobile homes and autos in minutes. Lynam and some 500 others throughout the state were evacuated in time to escape the flames...
...getting late, though not yet too late, for some basic tasks that many Democrats concede still have not been accomplished: coordinating the Mondale and Ferraro campaigns, defining a clear set of issues to be pressed, drawing up a target list of the states in which to campaign hardest. "What is their plan?" asks Congressman Coelho. "I don't know. They don't know, either...
High-tech companies encounter the hardest truths of the marketplace...
Such misgivings have helped lay the hardest blows on makers of small machines. As the number of personal-computer companies grew from a handful five years ago to more than 180 today, competition became ferocious. Except for a few leaders, the firms are scrambling for shelf space in stores at a time when sales have hit an unexpected lull. Quips Fred Hoar, a former Apple executive and now vice president of Raychem, a specialty chemical company: "The personal-computer industry has reached a new chapter in its history: Chapter...