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Rushing Player Att. Yds. Avg. Lg. T D Tony Hinz 106 454 4.3 20 4 Art McMahon 32 172 5.4 16 0 Silas Myers 21 100 4.8 23 1 Alex Konovalchik 24 80 3.3 10 0 Jim Reidy 11 57 5.2 28 2 Rod MacLeod 22 49 2.2 3 1 Tom Yohe 37 33 0.9 34 2 David Kuhn 5 25 5.0 10 0 David Haller 9 23 2.6 11 0 Tim Perry 8 17 2.1 12 0 Neil Phillips 2 16 8.0 16 0 Bob Giargiari 1 2 2.0 2 0 Tony Cutone 2 2 1.0 3 0 Chuck...
Operating well out of the public eye and, at least for a time, beyond Washington's view as well, technicians running an aging reactor at the Savannah River plant near Aiken, S.C., made errors in 1970 leading to the partial melting of a fuel rod. If the process had not been checked, it could eventually have led to a disaster on the order of the 1979 debacle at Three Mile Island. That frightening episode jolted the entire nation and inspired sharp reforms in the U.S. civilian nuclear power industry...
Only two fuel meltdowns are known to have occurred in U.S. reactors before the crisis at Three Mile Island. Those were in the pioneering days of nuclear weaponry. Besides the partial melting of a fuel rod in 1970, a more recent near calamity took place in March 1982, when a technician at one of the Savannah River reactors left a water valve open, and for twelve hours the undetected flow flooded a large plutonium-processing room. The contaminated water was 2 ft. deep...
...team with Hot Rod Williams (15.4 p.p.g.) on it has to be tough...
...photo opportunity that Bentsen's J.F.K. line was a "cheap shot." Responded Dukakis campaign manager Susan Estrich: "When the Republicans call something a cheap shot, you know you've scored a direct hit." Republicans tried to make a virtue out of necessity by having Quayle dub himself a "lightning rod" for Democratic attacks...