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Shot Put--1. Brian Janssen, Dartmouth, 49-ft., 5-in.; 2. Joe Madden, Brown, 48-ft., 6-in.; 3. Joseph Giani, Harvard, 46-ft., 8-in.; 4. Maurice Frilot, Harvard 46-ft., 1 1/2-in...
...years the source of that water seemed inexhaustible. Much of it comes + from 165-sq.-mi., dam-created Gatun Lake, through which the ships pass on their route across the isthmus. Most of the remainder is tapped from nearby Madden Lake, formed in 1935 (also by damming) to provide an additional reservoir of water for the dry season. But now a 375-page report by Stanley Heckadon Moreno, an environmentalist at Panama's Ministry of Planning, has raised a startling worry about the canal's future: it may be running short of water...
Once the trees are gone, denuded slopes are eroded by rainfall, which has been washing soil into 20-sq.-mi. Madden Lake at the rate of half a million tons a year. A study by Hydrologist Luis Alvarado of the Panama Canal Commission shows that silt accumulating at the bottom of the lake has reduced its storage capacity by 5%. By the year 2000 the loss could be as high as 10%, and by 2020 nearly...
...very own United States of America (rooty-toot-toot) makes the best TV beer commercials (tantara) in the universe. Nobody else is close, unless it is some race of advertising geniuses in the Crab nebula, and that is not close, and anyway the Crabs do not have John Madden or Mickey Spillane, so forget them...
...only other highlights for the home team came in the two diving events, when the Explorers' John Madden--no relation to the famous big-splash diver and sports announcer--notched the top spot in both the one-and three-meter boards. Sophomore Pat Healy of Harvard placed second in both competitions...