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...good news is that senior captain Kristin Linsley and junior Darlene Beckford, the one-two punch that last year took the Harvard women's cross country team to the Nationals for the first time ever, are both back this fall...
More threatening than the shallow Arctic waters is the ice; it can punch holes in sturdy tugs and treat barges like pincushions. The passing floes can make a landsman as giddy as a child finding shapes hi clouds. He sees ironing boards and beached seaplanes and dolphin tails and animals that guard the doors of ancient Egyptian tombs. But to the Cavalier's crew, there is nothing fanciful about these floating hulks. The ice is fragile from the summer, and if the tug sails too close, its wake can make the bergs crack or explode. Depending on the density...
...that's not all. Rejoining the team are Mike Mogollon and Alberto Villar, two skilled forwards who played in 1979 but missed last season for personal reasons. Their return should allow Ford to pack more firepower up front, providing a scoring punch that, although usually effective, was lacking last year...
Start-up costs for this one-two punch are estimated at $35 million to $40 million, but that figure could grow. The broadcasts will be beamed off a new satellite, Western Union's Westar IV, scheduled for launching in January. Since few local cable operators have equipment capable of receiving signals from Westar, Satellite NewsChannels may have to chip in for the necessary hardware. Installing a satellite dish, for example, costs upwards of $10,000. A more serious problem: ABC affiliates may grumble-or even defect to CBS or NBC-if the network's top journalists begin turning...
...British perspective on the monarchy today, TIME asked the views of one of that institution's most seasoned, if skeptical observers, whose notable career as a journalist, author and television pundit has been punctuated by stints in government service and as editor of Punch...