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...Dave Rand placed in both the jumping and cross country events to wind up third in the Nordic combined competition...
...Dave Rand produced Harvard's top of the weekend, copping a third place in the Nordic combined competition. RAnd's 16th place in the jumping combined with his cross-country output resulted in the stellar performance...
...dressmakers, Blumenthal landed in California at the age of 21 in 1947 with $60 in his pocket. He worked up through two dozen menial jobs, among them serving as a gambling shill near Lake Tahoe and handling the lights at strip shows featuring Lili St. Cyr and Sally Rand. He got a scholarship to Princeton, earned two master's degrees and a Ph.D. in economics, taught for a while but switched to the more exciting world of business, joining a subsidiary of Crown Cork & Seal, where he quickly climbed to vice president and director. In 1963, he was named...
...city crime last year. Detroit reports a decline in major crime for the first six months of 1977: murder down 27%, burglary and armed robbery each down about 25%. New Orleans District Attorney Harry Connick, who started the first LEAA-financed career-criminal program in 1975, cites a Rand Corp. estimate that a career criminal commits 20 offenses a year. If that is true, the 992 career-criminal convictions obtained thus far in New Orleans could prevent about 198,000 crimes over the next ten years...
...likely to devote whole weeks to this huge tome on the wet 75% of the earth's surface. But anyone who is interested in the ocean-from Jacques Cousteau to the vacationing urbanite curious about the formation of a beach-should enjoy diving beneath the covers of the Rand McNally Atlas of the Oceans and coming back for regular plunges thereafter. Like a galleon full of gold, the Atlas overflows with treasures, details of life in, under and around the edges of the vast roiling arenas where earthly life evolved...