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...world again in October 1957 when they launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, despite a technological gap with the West far greater than the present one. And whatever account one believes of the Korean Air Lines calamity, the fact remains that a Soviet pilot did fire on the intruding jumbo jet. Given the growing size and complexity of both superpower arsenals, there is every reason to be concerned about the risk of future accidents and conflicts...
...billion), inflation galloping at an estimated annual rate of 215%, and a third consecutive year of negative economic growth in 1983, Brazil (pop. about 131 million) is in acute social pain. Foreign bankers granted the country a brief breathing space two weeks ago with a $6.5 billion "jumbo" loan. But the U.S. Commerce Department had earlier added to Brazil's burden by ruling that steel exports to the U.S., which totaled $1.3 billion last year, were unfairly subsidized and thus subject to penalty duties. Further economic blows of that kind could threaten the country's long and gradual...
...match between Crimson Co-Captain Spencer Brog and the Jumbo's Wes Baker was the only close, contest of the day. After taking an early lead. Brog had to hold off a determined Baker, who forced the match to a fifth game which Brog held...
...Gold Knights, the Antelopes or the Bug-eaters. This last unfortunate appellation stuck, as to the grille and windshield of passing automobiles, until around 1900 a Lincoln sportswriter decided Bugeaters was not a proper nickname for the players and began to refer to them as Cornhuskers. Coach Jumbo Stiehm's teams, vintage 1911-15, alternately called the Cornhuskers and the Stiehm Rollers, were regularly undefeated against the likes of Notre Dame. During the 1920s, Knute Rockne's Four Horsemen lost to the Cornhuskers twice. Nebraska employed legendary Coaches Fielding Yost before Michigan and D.X. Bible before Texas...
...Grenada build a new "international airport," ostensibly to aid the island's tourist business. A Cuban construction brigade, using 85 pieces of Soviet heavy construction equipment, arrived in December to start the work. The airport's 10,000-ft. runway would be compatible with both tourist-laden jumbo jets and long-range military aircraft...