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Leon Sharpe challenged Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace's supremacy on the long jump pits with his best ever--a 22 ft. plus leap. But Vanderpool-Wallace's 24 ft. 4in, was enough to derail Sharpe's efforts. Neither Princeton nor Yale could place a man between them, and Harvard took first and second...
...rise only to $4.75 per bbl. by 1979, the last year of the plan. In fact, the price already has shot up to $9 per bbl. Oil imports had been taking 10% to 11% of the foreign currency that India earns from exports; now the bill is likely to leap to a disastrous 80% of foreign earnings...
...Blooded Impatience. Once he has a firm idea of how teams compare, Martin takes the leap. "You've got to have a lot of nerve," he says. "Sometimes I don't really know why I picked a certain team until the next morning." Before the line is posted during the regular season, Martin runs it by some experienced Las Vegas bettors to see how they react. At this stage it is known as the outlaw line-one that will not necessarily be available to ordinary bettors. If the "wise guys" bet as Martin expects, the line goes...
Theoretical Leap. Many researchers feel that memories are stored and recalled by a combination of macromolecules or large molecules that probably differ considerably from one individual to another. Thus they reject the notion of some science-fiction writers that memory molecules-and thereby memories-may one day be transferred from one brain to another. "The immune response is a learned reaction," says Rockefeller University's Edelman, again citing the parallel between memory and immunology. "There is no Marcel Proust for immunology. I doubt that there's one for the neurosciences...
Japan, for example, faces the prospect of having its oil bill leap from $7.4 billion in 1973 to about $14 billion in 1974. The cost will eat heavily into Japan's foreign-currency reserves, already dwindling at the rate of nearly $1 billion a month, and reduce the country's ability to pay for imported food and such vital raw materials as coal and lumber. The prospect of increased supplies of Arab oil has caused the Tokyo government to postpone until Jan. 10 a decision on conservation measures aimed at reducing Japanese energy consumption by 20%. But anticipation...