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Charles Oscar Finley, owner, president, general manager and remote-control field manager of the Oakland A's. was on a typical tear. "Get this crate rolling," he ordered. Chauffeur Howard Risner nosed the sleek black Cadillac into the moving traffic and headed toward Chicago's O'Hare Airport. "Shoot the...
Lynn Silliman, the coxswain, who is only 16 and looks like a 13-year-old blonde-haired, pug-nosed tomboy, had seized the water bottle the crew takes out on the river and was impishly squirting Carie, who looked to be about twice her size. Lynn is obviously younger than...
Massachusetts coach Ron Garber attributed his troops' victory not to an explosive offense but to a hard-nosed defense. "Our close one-to-one defense was particularly strong today and I thought our middles held McCall and Bruckmann in check all day, limiting Harvard's attack significantly," he said.
BUT CONSIDER THE image of the Harvard man--America's version of Michelangelo's David a rare treasure coyly shielded by a sprig of ivy, idling on an escalator headed for corporate influence, medical excellence or academic fame. In other words, power. And many Radcliffe women want that power, Spearheading...
? Italy's arms exports, totaling $240 million last year, include helicopters for Iran (built under license from the U.S.), frigates for Peru, tanks for Pakistan and counterinsurgency aircraft for Zambia and South Africa. James Bond's favorite pistol, the snub-nosed .25-mm. Beretta, is still sold all over...