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...quietly and unassumingly, the University's other river inhabitants--the sailors--trudge back and forth from the campus to 45 Memorial Dr., home of the Harvard Sailing Center and the mainstay of Crimson skippers...
Then the full force of its 150-m.p.h. winds slammed into the former British colony of Dominica, killing at least 22 people and leaving some 60,000 homeless. The capital of Roseau was flattened in a five-hour assault. The banana crop, mainstay of the island's economy, was totally destroyed. The nearby islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique suffered heavy damage from the winds and torrential rains. So did Puerto Rico, where the storm left at least seven dead...
...Wrigley, nestled into a rejuvenated neighborhood on Chicago's North Side, ivy-covered brick and the absence of lights provide a setting that has been a mainstay of National League competition since the turn of the century...
...SALT I agreement left the Russians with more than 300 heavies, much bigger than anything the U.S. has or, under the interim agreement, would be allowed to have. The remainder of the Soviet ICBM force is made up of many rockets classified as light, but still bigger than the mainstay of the U.S. deterrent, the Minuteman ICBM...
Perhaps the most unfortunate aspect of the "Decline and Fall of the Umpire" tenth inning was that it saddled Stewart with the loss. The hard-throwing junior, who has been a mainstay on the Harvard staff for three years, had entered the game with two outs in the fifth and Princeton ahead...