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...first week of classes are cancelled when record red-dotting--a full two-thirds of the student body fail to meet tuition payments--plays havoc with normally well oiled registration machinery. Holyoke Center officials attribute the unprecedented number of late payments to steeper tuition costs and "the spirit of lawlessness rampant among this country's young...
...season after being out early with an ankle injury, led the Cantabs in scoring with nine points Freshman Mars Baldauf added eight Last night marked the first game all year that Collins did not score in double figures. She finished with seven. . .Eagle forward Sally Madiera, who wreaked havoc on the Harvard zone all evening, hit for 22. Freshman point guard Barb Keffer led the team in assists for the sixth consecutive game. She now has 32 on the year, last year's team leader...
...Chernenko glanced up at gray, glowering skies as he stepped out of his limousine at the Kremlin last week for a special plenum of the Communist Party Central Committee. The weather must have been very much on his mind. For the sixth consecutive year, the Soviet climate had played havoc with grain crops. The yield, according to Western estimates, was expected to measure only 170 million metric tons, well below the 220 million metric tons needed for annual consumption...
...used as formidable weapons for international sabotage. By programming a high-speed computer to dial every phone number in Japan, for instance, one could eventually reach telephone lines that tap directly into the Bank of Japan. Any disruption of the bank's computerized funds-transfer system risks wreaking havoc with the Japanese economy...
...somewhere, somehow, last year's Harvard no-names became the big names of the Ivy League. Between the Harvard football squad's second straight Ivy title in the fall and the Harvard women's tennis team's second straight Ivy title in the spring, nine other Crimson squads wreaked havoc on the league like only one set of teams before them. And those teams had played their games in Cambridge the year before...