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...STEDMAN... At the women's Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships at Brown University last week, sophomore butterfly ace KATHLEEN "MAD MAC" McCLOSKEY celebrated her twentieth birthday in fine style. Not only did she receive several cakes and a few singing serenades, but the team presented her with a rubber duck life preserver which she wore to lunch at the Marriott Hotel...Although co-captain and Rhodes Scholar DEBBIE JACOBS was prevented from competing in the Ivies because of a broken arm, she suited up--cast and all--for the 100-yd. freestyle and got onto the blocks to wave...
Once the board approves the eviction certificates, court approval is likely to be "pretty much a pro forma matter," Moulton said, though she added that "occasionally" the court does not rubber-stamp rent board decisions...
...million from CETA -a welcome transfusion for a decaying industrial city that is hemorrhaging jobs. The unemployment rate in Erie now hovers at 9.5%, against a nationwide rate of 7.4%. The Holiday Meat Packing Co. closed its doors for good two weeks ago, leaving 230 jobless; the Continental Rubber Works, which employs 320, will shut down soon...
...daunting climate, the remoteness of the location and the size of the undertaking will make this one of the most complex engineering projects ever undertaken. In the harsh winters of the Yamal, roughly 150 miles above the Arctic Circle, rubber turns as hard as armor plating and steel rods snap like peppermint sticks. The permafrost is so thick during most of the year that the toughest of excavating equipment must be used to break through it; yet in summer the ground can turn into a quagmire that blocks both man and machine...
...highlights of any Harvard Krokodiloe concert comes with the group's rendition of Cole Porter's "Let's Do It." The Kroks, the 12-man cappella undergraduate singing group, always revises the lyrics of this randy war-horse to give it that unmistakable aroma of burning rubber--the smell of tires and gonads hot for another trip to Wellesley...