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Gene Purdy's spectacular goal 53 seconds into overtime gave Harvard a 4-3 win over Northeastern in the first round of the Beanpot tournament, a victory flavored with excitement and overflowing with revenge...
...chief trade negotiator, size up the importance of last week's Geneva session in the 98-nation trade talks sponsored by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Started in Japan more than four years ago to lower international tariff walls, the so-called Tokyo Round talks have proceeded at a snail's pace-mostly as a result of U.S. preoccupation with Watergate, the Viet Nam pullout and the 1976 presidential elections. Last week the negotiations entered a new and decisive phase, when the U.S. followed Japan and the European Community in presenting its formal negotiating offer...
Like Begin, Sadat is secure in power at home-unless, possibly, negotiations totally collapse. Last week he sent Egyptian diplomats to a number of foreign capitals (London, Paris, Bonn, Belgrade and Tehran) to round up support for his initiative. As part of that strategy, Sadat has also requested military aid from the U.S. that would be equivalent to what is being given Israel. The Administration is considering a variety of options, one of which involves the sale of anywhere from 50 to 120 F-5E jet fighters over a period of up to three years...
Randy Erskine, 29, a fifth-year pro who must play in the rabbit rounds to gain a position in the opening-round field, concedes that exempt players kept him out of only two tournaments last year. But Erskine adds: "Without the lifetime exemptions, they could never play in a tournament. They're playing a major league sport, but they're playing like minor leaguers. Their scores show...
...control the weather. The first step toward control, of course, is knowledge, and scientists have been hard at work for years trying to keep track of the weather. The U.S. and other nations have created an international apparatus that maintains some 100.000 stations to check the weather round the clock in every sector of the globe and, with satellites, in a good deal of the more than 4 billion cubic miles of the atmosphere...