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...Crimson offense, which hasn't scored a touchdown in the last two weeks, suffered another setback yesterday when it was announced that the mainstay of the offensive line, tackle Steve Diamond, is out for the season with a broken wrist...
Harvard halfback John Tyson, a hard-running 190-pounder, carried the Harvard attack for much of the game. He was the mainstay of a fourth quarter drive that the B.C. defense stopped on the one-yard line just before Stargel's interception...
...ASROC. A surface-to-subsurface rocket that can deliver a torpedo or a nuclear depth charge, ASROC is the mainstay weapon of all ASW surface ships, is currently operational on 130 and will be on 20 vessels more by next June...
...runs the company's day-to-day operations, Samsonite has been diversifying. It recently opened a new factory in Loveland, Colo., to make children's interlocking construction sets, is planning to expand further into the toy field. Luggage will continue to be the company's mainstay: it makes more bags than the next ten luggage manufacturers combined. Some of the pieces are not available to the public: Samsonite makes special luggage for such firms as Ampex and IBM, turns out the special navy-blue bags that all United Air Lines stewardesses are required to use. Added...
...than $3.8 million, both new records. Auto sales, which account for about 60% of the company's revenues, increased to a record 43,011 units, are expected to climb to 50,000 this year. Saab is still producing and profiting from its Draken-35 jet fighters, the current mainstay of the Swedish air force, and the piston-engine Safir trainers that are used by Sweden and five foreign nations...