Word: lakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard heavyweights square off against Princeton and MIT on Lake Carnegie today, and the lights face the Naval Academy on the Charles, it will become evident that neither Crimson squad was wholly complacent with last weekend's victories...
...test scheduled for this Tuesday is code-named Mighty Oak. If all goes as planned, a U.S. nuclear device will explode in a tunnel beneath the dry lake beds of Nevada, some 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. On the scale of modern tests, it rates as a penny-ante blast, releasing a mere 20 kilotons of explosive power, equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT. Such a test usually does nothing more than rattle the china in a few Nevada closets. But this time the shock waves could reverberate around the world...
Home to a crew of about 60, the Key Manhattan operates in the blue-gray waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The crew members are latter-day lake dwellers who alternate two-week tours of twelve-hour shifts with two weeks at home. Cleckler, 57, the food manager, finds cooking more rewarding aboard the rig than it is when she prepares meals back home in Brooklyn, Miss., for her grandchildren, who say McDonald's food is better. Says Cleckler, one of the eight women aboard who do the housekeeping and cooking: "Out here our work is really appreciated...
...first loss--against a pair of wins--for the Yardling from Lake Oswego...
LAST WEEK FICTION WEEK 1 THE BOURNE SUPREMACY, Ludlum 1 2 THE MAMMOTH HUNTERS, Auel 2 3 LAKE WOBEGON DAYS, Keillor 3 4 LIE DOWN WITH LIONS, Follett 4 5 HOME FRONT, Davis 5 6 SEASONS OF THE HEART, Freeman...