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...solid goalkeeping of Whitney Robbins, kept the game close throughout the first half, trailing by a 6-4 margin at the intermission. But the Crimson ran off six unanswered goals at the start of the second half. Brown attack Sue Cutlass matched Joslin goal for goal, but couldn't lift her team to victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Joslin's Six Goals Power Laxwomen Past Brown | 4/16/1987 | See Source »

...Kelfer was in uniform for the Terriers again--this time as a shortstop. Kelfer's two RBI helped lift B.U. to a 5-3 victory over the Crimson yesterday afternoon before 60 spectators at Soldiers Field...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Batsmen Bounced; Terriers Open, 5-3 | 4/10/1987 | See Source »

...first-place finish in the Ivies would qualify the team for the ECAC Tournament, and a strong showing there would lift it into the national spotlight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Laxwomen Laced; UMass Rolls, 10-8 | 4/10/1987 | See Source »

Atlas-Centaur rockets have been launching U.S. satellites into orbit for the past 25 years, but last week the sturdy workhorse suffered a rare failure. Less than a minute after lift-off from Pad 36B at Cape Canaveral in threatening weather, a $78 million, 137-ft. rocket disappeared into rain- swollen thunderheads and went out of control. A range safety officer hit the destruct button, and the rocket exploded along with its payload, an $83 million communications satellite. For NASA, struggling to recover from the loss of the Challenger shuttle 14 months ago, the aborted flight broke a string...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: A Bolt In the Blue | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...great hope of Corazon Aquino's ascension to power was that the Communist insurgents might heed her plea to disarm and join in the rebuilding of Philippine society. That hope got a lift when the Communist New People's Army agreed last December to a 60-day cease-fire, a first for the 18-year-old rebel insurgency. But the truce broke down last month amid bitter charges and countercharges. The Ministry of Defense estimates that at least 350 people have died since the fighting resumed. The violence often plays out in a lethal tit for tat. Last week, after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: Sharpening the Swords of War | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

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