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...those were the precise words of Dartmouth president John G. Kemeny addressing 10,000 at a pep rally Friday night. Kemeny, appropriately enough, chaired the commission appointed to investigate Three Mile Island...
...seven man John MacEachern said, "which felt good all the way down the course." Although one part of the course--the powerhouse stretch just past the Western Ave. bridge--gave them problems, the crowd helped restore the boat's rhythm as it covered the three-mile course...
Instead of wandering a mile or two to a local pond like Thoreau, Arthur journeyed with her husband to Stuart Lake, British Columbia, 54 degrees, 40 minutes, where they buy a small island and build a house. Their motive is clearly escape: "When we moved to the island, we dreamed of making a permanent home in the wilderness, apart from the forces we thought were destroying and polluting the world...
Despite the major advantages of surprise and superior numbers, the Iraqi forces had achieved no major victory in their invasion of Iran along a 500-mile front from the Iranian border town of Qasr-e-Shirin in the north to the port of Khorramshahr in the south. The Iraqi proposal for a "unilateral ceasefire" appeared to have been merely a smokescreen to cover the fact that its forces were making limited progress toward their objectives. Baghdad's battle plan apparently called for the seizure of key cities in Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province, which has a large...
...sport that demands great effort, sacrifice, discipline, and mental toughness on an individual level, it is rare to find anything like a partnership existing. But a partnership it has become--Linsley and Beckford running side by side, pacing each other through each endless mile, often 20 or more seconds ahead of their nearest competitor...