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...Army's new M-l Abrams tank illustrates both the problems and the potential of overcoming Soviet numbers with advanced technology. At its best, the 60-ton monster is a marvel, roughriding over terrain at 35 m.p.h. while firing its 120-mm cannon with remarkable accuracy. Its revolutionary armor provides protection several hundred times as great as that of the M60, which the new tank replaces. Yet the M-l has been plagued with problems during development, and costs have now reached $2.43 million apiece (compared with $1.2 million for the M-60). The main problem was that...
...Harvard women's basketball team continued to drive in reverse by dropping its 18th game of the 1981-82 season yesterday evening, 71-64 at Brown's Marvel Gymnasium...
...chunk of the league lead. And the Bruins--who lost their first 11 games of the season but who have since rebounded with wins over perennial Ivy Powers Penn and Princeton--responded to the uncustomary call of the league lead, dumping the Crimson, 69-65, at Brown's Marvel...
With an early season win over Dartmouth, Harvard's Ivy League record remains 1-0, tops in the conference. Upsets dominated the weekend's Ivy slate, with Brown (0-11 as of last Friday) dumping both Penn and Princeton at the Bruin's Marvel Gym. In addition, Yale, after losing to Princeton Friday night, upset Penn, 49-48, on Saturday...
...bemused modern reader, John Ruskin is yet another long-gone marvel, a species of featherless biped now extinct. This rare bird, born in 1819, was a gentleman of means and an amateur of genius, whose leisurely travels to Italy and Switzerland resulted in a vast outpouring of noblesse oblige: Sesame and Lilies and Seven Lamps of Architecture and some 30 other volumes instructing his countrymen on how to think about art, man and socialism. His writing now seems overabundant; but in an age when color photography and its reproduction in books were lacking, there was a reason for his word...