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...will give the fishermen a chance to obtain low-interest loans. The price of shrimp for consumers, however, is not likely to rise by much. In fact, the wholesale price has plummeted 40% in the past year to about $4 per lb. because of good catches in Texas and Louisiana and increased imports from as far away as Thailand...
Places in the polling hierarchy traditionally occupied by the overpowering-Alabama, Notre Dame, Pitt or U.S.C.-have been taken over by the middling-South Carolina, Kentucky or Washington. In its first five games, Alabama was able to beat only quaint Southwestern Louisiana, but then upset Penn State before losing to Tennessee. As bad starts go, this one went back to 1957, the year before the coming of Bear Bryant. About a month before Coach Bryant died in 1983, former Receiver Ray Perkins was selected to follow him. "From disbelief to sadness to disappointment to madness," as Perkins has described...
...good times roll!" exulted Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards when he opened the World's Fair in New Orleans last May. Alas, the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition has seen nothing but hard times. The fair has been losing $1 million a week; average daily attendance has been 40,000, a sorry response to the spring predictions of 70,000. And last week the fair defaulted on a $40 million bank loan by failing to make its $450,000 monthly interest payment. The festival on the levee has no chance of breaking even, but New Orleans has Beleaguered exposition agreed...
...Ward's staff member had been farther than Louisiana in 18 months. Even more baffling, the Florida Xanthomonas campestris bacterium is somewhat different from its common cousins: equipped with a vast arsenal of immunities and extra fatty acids, which give it strength, it is a particularly virulent strain...
Most believe that after this season Fenerty will own nearly every Holy Cross rushing record. And that's not bad for someone who transferred to the Worcester school from Louisiana State University just a year...