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Trying to predict any upcoming Ivy season is always hard, but the task is even more difficult this year because of a cast of unknowns. Last year everybody knew that Harvard, Yale and Penn had strong offenses, and that Brown and Dartmouth were tough on defense. But this year, about the only certainty is the quality of the Brown defense...
...Australians is now a polyglot sport with stars from Mexico, Argentina, India, Poland, Sweden and Spain. Such varied talent, combined with the switch at Forest Hills from grass to a claylike surface that does not favor the spasmodic serve-and-volley offense, prompted Wimbledon Champion Arthur Ashe to predict last week that multiple upsets would rock this year's Open. Indeed, former Open Champion Stan Smith was ousted in the tournament's first night match under newly installed lights. As last year's Winner Connors says: "Everybody's a challenger...
Sixteen Governors trooped into the White House last week to discuss another energy problem area-this time natural gas. Confirming their worst fears, the President presented the latest Federal Energy Administration forecasts. They predict severe gas shortages beginning in November, notably in Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky and the skein of Mid-Atlantic states stretching from New York to South Carolina. The most vulnerable state is North Carolina, whose pipeline company has only limited supplies of natural gas, which is essential in textile processing. Said Governor James Holshouser: "If we have an average winter, we will be able to meet only...
...rumble beneath them. The brief 1-to 2-sec. quake measured 5.2 magnitude and did little damage. But its impact still reverberates through the world of seismology. The accurate forecast of the Hollister temblor was a dramatic demonstration that scientists are on the verge of being able to predict the time, place and even the size of earthquakes...
With their new knowledge, U.S. and Russian scientists cautiously began making private predictions of impending earthquakes. In 1973, after he had studied data from seven portable seismographs at the Blue Mountain Lake encampment, Columbia University's Aggarwal excitedly telephoned Lynn Sykes back at the laboratory. All signs, said Aggarwal, pointed to an imminent earthquake of magnitude 2.5 to 3. As Aggarwal was sitting down to dinner two days later, the earth rumbled under his feet. "I could feel the waves passing by," he recalls, "and I was jubilant." In November 1973, after observing changes in P-wave velocity, Caltech...