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...hostages held by militants at the U.S. embassy in Tehran sank into increasing isolation following the departure of the American newsmen. John Thomas, a publicity-hungry American Indian militant from South Dakota, claimed to have met with one of the hostages during his visit to Tehran, but gave few helpful details of the encounter. No other outsider has seen them since a group of U.S. clergymen visited the embassy at Christmas...
...flood of undiscriminating investment capital that flows toward art these days may yet produce a crisis analogous to the one that nearly sank the Bordeaux wine industry in the early 1970s. A surge of investment in Bordeaux vintages, to some extent by people who could not tell Medoc from camels' urine, shoved prices so high that traditional consumers of claret switched to Italian and other wines, thus tearing the bottom out of the market...
...first half, Harvard did what it knew it had to do. Shoot. And not miss. The Crimson sank an awesome 63 per cent from the floor, while Texas conected only 42 per cent of the time...
Spurred on by the brilliant early-season swimming of freshman David Lundberg, Harvard sank the Naval Academy Mid-shipmen, 72-41, at Blodgett Pool Saturday to run its dual meet record...
Saltzman narrowed the gap to a quarter of a body length over the first six laps, but Coglin refused to be beaten. Harvard's winning time of 6:41.84 was a mere .03 seconds better than the Tigers, but the stunnning victory sank Princeton's title aspirations and sent the capacity Blodgett crowd into hysteria...