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...then, you haven't been following Division One puck happenings very closely this winter. Under former Harvard assistant coach Tim Taylor, the Elis are finally through with the perennial rebuilding years. Although sporting a 10-13-1 record, Yale has beaten the best teams on the circuit and convincingly proven that Taylor's boys can play with anybody...
...There have been disappointing and high moments all year," Taylor said yesterday, "but I'm very pleased with how far our hockey program has come. This is the year that we have proven ourselves to be as good as anyone else in the ECAC," he added...
There have been no proven cases of the Russian Flu at Georgetown. Christina G. McGinniss, head nurse at Georgetown student health services, said yesterday. But doctors have not been able to take throat cultures to test for Russian Flu because they have been too busy helping patients this week, she added...
...answer to this problem has been the concept album, and it's proven largely unsuccessful. The idea of doing an album comprised of musical reflections on one central idea is a noble one; but all too often, the listener is bludgeoned with the artist's self-proclaimed sensitivity, the connections are strained, and the themes themselves are pretentious or trivial. In the rare instances where concept albums have succeeded (Randy Newman's Good Ole Boys, for example), the songs have seemed like elements of a large orchestral work; the whole has seemed greater than the sum of its parts. Such...
...about reserves; because large parts of the country have not been thoroughly surveyed by oil geologists, the Chinese themselves probably have only imprecise figures. The lowest foreign estimate of Chinese reserves, a 1977 guess by the American Petroleum Institute, puts them at 20 billion bbl.; if those reserves were proven, China would rank ninth in the world. The CIA has a far higher estimate: 39 billion bbl. below dry land and perhaps that much offshore-a grand total that would place China neck and neck with the Soviet Union for second place, behind Saudi Arabia...