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Coatless in a raw February wind, the Prime Minister hoisted himself onto the back of a green Land Rover in the courtyard of the North Ealing Conservative Club. The wind had long since whipped the hand-lettered WELCOME TED HEATH sign from the club's red-tiled roof, but his audience of 150 constituency workers loyally shivered through Heath's homiletic. Winding up the set-piece campaign talk, he proclaimed that thanks to the oil that will be gushing from the North Sea before the end of the decade, "we are going to be one of the fortunate...
...Crimson will counter with elusive running back Tommy Winn who piled up 133 yards rushing in last week's victory over Brown. Rover back Bill Emper, who has emerged as the stopper in the Harvard defense, will be heavily counted on to stifle Yale's potent attack...
...organizers of the Dartmouth show suggested, was it sold by the King or someone in his family? This second theory was supported by the fact that smaller "sacred objects" have been sold off by past Fons of Kom in exchange for such commodities as zinc roofing and a Land Rover. Cameroon's Ambassador to the U.S., Francois-Xavier Tchoungui, thinks otherwise: "We cannot avoid the fact that the Afo-A-Kom was stolen," he says. "We cannot believe that a chief could sell his own totem...
...Russian rocketeers. Four weeks ago a giant Proton booster - the largest Soviet rocket - apparently failed during liftoff, sending its payload crashing into the Pacific off eastern Siberia. U.S. space observers believe that the cargo, destined for the moon, included an improved version of the highly successful Soviet lunar rover...
...Land-Rover had meanwhile made it onto the tarmac and was circling the Viscount, but only one of the three Arabs had a gun. He fired repeatedly at the plane without causing any appreciable damage. Another Arab threw a bag of explosives near the aircraft but it did not go off. By this time, an Israeli security agent was strafing the car with a submachine gun. He wounded all three guerrillas, one fatally, and the Land-Rover crashed into a mobile generator...