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...only real scoring threat of the half came five minutes before halftime. Karen Linsley stickhandled skillfully through the Jumbo defense and let loose a screecher which was saved by the goalie...
With the score tied 7-7 midway through the third period, Berezo intercepted a Tufts pass and returned it to the Jumbo 35-yard line. Moments later, Crimson quarterback Tim Davenport found his tight end Jim Cannon open in the end zone for a 14-yard scoring pass, giving Harvard its first lead...
...first TAP Airline jumbo jets begin arriving at Lisbon's Portela de Sacavém International Airport at 7:55 in the morning. By 10 o'clock customs and immigration offices are overflowing: upper-middle-class professional men with their well-dressed families "on holiday," civil servants "on extended leave," students looking for places at Lisbon University, shopkeepers, farmers, nuns, Asians, mulattoes and frightened old people. Pushing a cart piled high with 14 suitcases and carrying a bicycle, João Tudo Bern, a civil servant from the Angolan capital of Luanda expressed the prevailing sentiment: "I have...
...fellow Texan, Representative Jim Wright. Sympathetic to the billboard lobby, Wright has proposed several "beautification" amendments to the 1974 Highway Construction Act that take the teeth out of earlier legislation. The 1965 law prohibited signs within 660 feet of the right of way. Advertisers responded nimbly by placing jumbo signs just beyond the 660-ft. limit; they were even more unsightly than the smaller signs adjacent to the road. To counter this violation of the spirit of the law, the Senate Public Works Committee recently reported out a bill extending the ban to the Limits of legibility. The amended House...
...microelectronics, that could help the Soviet arms efforts. The businessmen are more than willing to trade low-grade technology and most other products, but they see little long-term profit in selling complete plants. Lockheed and Boeing, for instance, are now dickering with Moscow on the sale of jumbo jets, but they...