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...great game up in the hinterlands three weeks ago, when the Big Red sank Harvard on a pair of free throws in the closing seconds. Since then, both squads have gone on a few teary of their own. Harvard winning three in a row and Cornell four. Not to mention the fact that the Crimson is on its way to a new NCAA record for team free-throw shooting...
Western diplomats believe Iraq can carry out its threat. In October, the country received from France five highly sophisticated Super Etendard fighter-bombers, which can be equipped with lethal Exocet missiles. The Iraqis increased the pressure earlier this month with air strikes that, they claim, sank nine "enemy naval targets" in the gulf. In response, Iran has hardened its position. Only an end to the rule of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Iranian officials insist, will bring a settlement. Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz to all shipping if Iraq launches attacks on its oil facilities...
...backcourt, Bob Ferry controlled the pace of the Crimson attack. At the charity stripe, the nation's leading free-throw shooter sank eight of his attempts, hitting the rim once. Ferry also prevented All-American Johnny Dawkins from scoring once the Crimson went man-to-man towards...
...jugular vein, the other struck the archduchess in the abdomen. From the archduke's throat a thin stream of blood spurted onto the face of an aide. "For God's sake, what has happened to you?" the archduchess cried out to her stricken husband. "Then she sank down from her seat," the aide recalled. "His Royal Highness said, 'Soferl, Soferl! Don't die. Live for my children.' " The aide grasped the slumping archduke by the collar and asked if he were in great pain. The dying archduke said, "It is nothing," then repeated that...
...second-rate basketball player at Salinas (Calif.) High School. In 1925, the year that F. Scott Fitzgerald became famous for The Great Gatsby, Steinbeck, 23, was still studying "creative writing" at Stanford-too late, as well as too naive, to become a chronicler of the jazz age. William Faulkner sank his roots in Oxford, Miss., and lived off the accumulated capital of the Old South. The nouveau Californian nourished a vague passion for the Pacific Ocean, which helped him more as an amateur marine biologist than as a professional storyteller...