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...ball game for obscurity. The Yale baseball team punished three Crimson pitchers to the tune of seven hits and three walks, and the Harvard fielders chipped in with three errors to give Darling, the finest college pitcher in the East, an 11-run lead before he put toe to rubber. The Elis held on, of course, taking a 14-2 decision in the opener of yesterday's doubleheader and riding Joe Impagliazzo's four-hit pitching to seal the nightcap, 4-2. What began as a weekend of promise on Friday has, two rain-days and two losses later, turned...
...perhaps by the hard-line instincts of the President himself. The confrontational overtones of the Reagan foreign policy to date hark back to a vigorously anti-Soviet presidential campaign and, before that, to Reagan's long career as an unabashedly old-fashioned anti-Communist speaker on the Republican rubber-chicken circuit. Reagan felt all the more justified in making anti-Sovietism the cornerstone of his foreign policy since he came to office in a landslide victory over Jimmy Carter, who was generally perceived as soft on the Soviet challenge. There is little question that many Americans were ready...
...Leon Leonwood Bean sent a one-page circular advertising his new rubber hunting shoe to every person with a Maine hunting licence. He developed the boot, at least according to legend, because he was tired of coming back from hunting trips with aching, wrinkled feet...
...Defense Stockpile was started in 1939 and grew rapidly during the Korean War, when the U.S. committed $8 billion to expand production of some 90 strategic materials and subsequently stockpiled them in more than 100 locations around the U.S. Manganese and chromium were stored in huge outdoor dumps, and rubber was cached in refrigerated warehouses. The goal was to have enough material to sustain military production and meet industrial needs during a three-year...
...Price Waterhouse senior partner, says that a survey of 83 companies using inflation accounting last year showed that real profits were about 40% less than those reported on the normal balance sheet. Another survey, by Arthur Young & Co., revealed after adjustments for inflation that airlines, railroads and tire and rubber companies actually lost money. High-technology companies like IBM and Intel were the only sector of U.S. industry to do better on an inflation-adjusted basis. Reason...