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...might just as well have stayed at home. Sophomore year at the Stadium, with Harvard quarterback Brian Buckley chuckling musk-melons, proved to be a joke. There were no surprises: Yale was better; Yale won. The end of the game is something of a blur, but I do remember being on the field before the game was over. My intent was to protect the goal-posts from a fate similar to that which the Eli uprights had suffered the year before. "Fight fiercely, men," I cried, and headed into the fray in the end gone...
...sunny Friday afternoon, two Swedish naval officers aboard a motorboat chugging through the waters near a naval base on Musk Island, about 30 miles south of Stockholm, glimpsed a periscope flashing through the waves. The alert quickly went out that a foreign submarine was lurking in Swedish waters, and within hours the hunt was on. Throughout last week, dozens of ships and helicopters swept back and forth across Hars Bay, dropping depth charges to try to bring the mystery sub to the surface. "We don't intend to pat it on the back or just follow...
...strongly suspected that the submarine was from a Warsaw Pact nation, most probably the Soviet Union, although Moscow scoffed at the notion, calling it a hoax designed to disrupt Scandinavian-Soviet relations. The naval base on Musk Island is Sweden's largest and most sensitive; its radar keeps constant watch over the country's eastern coastline, which faces the Soviet Union in the Baltic Sea. If the vessel were from the Soviet bloc, its probable mission was to gather as many details as possible about the base and the surrounding waters. Washington believes that in the event...
...decided to try to trap the sub, force it to the surface and question those aboard. Within a few days after the first sighting, the Swedes managed to bottle up the sub in Hars Bay, a narrow channel (12 miles long and 3 miles wide) between the mainland and Musk Island. Both major openings in the bay were blocked by a forest of submarine nets, chains and magnetic cords...
...gung-ho executive who goes to work for a large, shaky corporation. She saves the situation by teaming up with the race-car-driving, playboy heir to the company to steer the organization into the fragrance business and a perfume that is Bare Essence. The show is obviously musk viewing for the heads of any financially troubled corporations...