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Luis didn't want to predict how the Red Sox would fare this year. "Nobody knows," Luis said. But he is still very optimistic. "We have a much better team this year than last," because of the new strength in the pitching staff, especially with the addition of Ferguson Jenkins, Luis said...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: Marc My Words | 3/6/1976 | See Source »

...only those positions which it feels sure will prevail. Harvard is too smart, and, for that matter, too image-conscious, to be caught in a public forum with its legal pants down. As Powers explains, "We carefully examine our legal position before we take it; we generally can accurately predict what will happen in most cases...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Parrying the Final Blow | 3/6/1976 | See Source »

Pipkin said he could not predict the Class of 1980's male-female ratio because applicants will be chosen on the basis of merit, following Harvard's new sex-blind admissions policy...

Author: By Anne Barrett, | Title: Harvard to Accept 1600 For Next Freshman Class | 3/5/1976 | See Source »

...Carmichael, the Institute fellow who narrowly lost the governor's race in Mississippi last year, said that he was in Tennessee this week and that Reagan supporters there predict their candidate may be out of the race within a week...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Harvard Students Active in Primaries | 3/3/1976 | See Source »

...troubles are in agriculture. Drought contributed to a disastrous harvest in 1975; because of an 83-million-ton grain shortage, the Soviets were obliged to buy 35 million tons from the U.S. and other foreign countries. The winter-wheat crop this year has already proved disappointing. Some Washington experts predict that shortages of bread and especially meat and dairy products will become so acute by next spring that strikes and even riots could break out. These disorders are most likely to occur in provincial towns, but not in Moscow and other big cities that hold high priorities for food distribution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Hard Times for Ivan | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

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