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Freshman shortstop Brad Bauer belted a grandslam home run and a three-run double to propel the Harvard baseball team to a doubleheader sweep of Eastern League rival Dartmouth at Soldiers Field Saturday...
...headquaters in Los Angeles, the Sikhs devote themselves to the scripture of the last living master, the book Siri Guru Granth Sahib. The writings of the ten masters are an account of the faith's traditions and a collection of the chants and songs the first gurus intoned to propel themselves into "a state of ecstasy for God consciousness." Yogi Bhajan, a shortened form of Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji, translated the scripture into English when he brought the faith to the United States...
...puts it, "simplicity itself." Picking up cow lungs at local slaughterhouses, he scraped off their surfactant, rid it of most of its protein, modified it with the organic compounds, and put the resulting white powder into solution. That way, with a tube and syringe, he could propel it directly into an infant's air passages. To spread it over the lungs, he just moved his tiny patients about until the alveolar cells that make up the lining of the lung were all coated. The infants were immediately placed in a 100% oxygen atmosphere and put on respirators to help...
...package of tough new policies. Among them: a stiff hike in the price of gasoline and other fuels and a 25% peso devaluation. But her tough new plan provoked a warning from the heads of the powerful Central Labor Federation, which had sponsored a general strike that helped propel Natusch from office. Workers, declared Federation Leader Juan Lechin Oquendo, "will not accept economic measures that affect their income." If Gueiler's new proposals are carried out, he threatened, his followers were ready to "struggle in the streets...
...West Germans, the Morgan Guaranty action was an unnecessary power play that, because of the court action, threatened to propel West Germany directly into the U.S.-Iranian conflict. Said a finance ministry official in Bonn: "It was a damned stupid thing to do. This is endangering not only our business interests, but the lives of 1,500 West Germans still in Iran...