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...then the infamous rematch in March, when months of preparation had gone awry, and when, with an excrutiating stretch and pop. Harvard's mightiest administrator had stumbled to the hardwood, the victim of an unattached gastroenemius tendon...
...other hand, Kosters has spotted price trends that seem to call for quick Government action. An obscure price increase in hardwood maple led him to suspect that lumber prices in general were about to jump. On his recommendation, the COLC put under controls small and medium-sized lumber mills, which had been exempted. Kosters claims that in some cases they were buying lumber from big mills at controlled prices and selling it on the open market for much more. Last month Kosters convinced Rumsfeld that requests by automakers for price boosts on 1973 cars should be resisted. He argued that...
...Church. Outside, 10,000 mourners prayed in a bleak, icy rain. As the throng murmured in unison, "May the angels lead you into paradise, martyrs await your coming," a woman groaned, "No, no, no." "Jimmy, my lover boy," sobbed another woman, upon seeing one of the 13 identical hardwood coffins." He was only 17," moaned a third...
...even worse infestation of birds bedevils Scotland Neck, N.C. (pop. 2,869). There, perhaps 20 million blackbirds are jammed into 60 to 85 acres of pine and hardwood trees. Branches have broken under the weight of the birds, and the accumulated carpet of guano in some sections of the woods is a foot thick. No one can figure out why the birds chose this particular town or how to drive the intruders away. One man wrote the mayor with a gruesome plan for overkill: "You mix coarse meal with plaster of paris and feed it to the birds...
...answer is Bill Sharman, the Lakers' new, no-nonsense coach. Unlike his three predecessors, Sharman learned the game on the hardwood courts of the N.B.A., where he was an eight-time All-Star guard with the Boston Celtics during their late-1950s glory days. After coaching the Utah Stars to the championship of the American Basketball Association last year, Sharman was hired away for a reported $75,000 a year to work similar miracles in Southern California. His tactics were simple: stressing defense, the fast break and "running, running, running," he transformed the team into a Los Angeles version...