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...year fuse, the fireworks of seniors Brown and Lewis were supposed to explode in a breathtaking display of basketball brilliance. The performance of these two seniors, along with those of Jenkins and Fitzsimmons, whom most people figured would be two of the top juniors in the country, was to skyrocket Harvard into Ivy League and national prominence. But the fireworks that the Harvard community had awaited for over three years with eager anticipation did not explode. Instead they fizzled miserably, and Harvard stumbled to a 7-7 Ivy record and 14-12 overall...
...biggest change that will occur as a result of the Putnam appointment will be a financial one. The initial cost to Harvard of investment management will probably skyrocket...
Most Britons were more inclined to view the event with resignation, opposition or, like TV comedian Benny Hill, as an occasion for satire. The latest poll shows 49% of Britons still opposed to Common Market entry and only 37% in favor. English housewives worry that their food prices will skyrocket to Common Market levels. Their fears are shared by shopkeepers who are up in arms over the extra record keeping that will be required when Britain adopts the Continental-style value added tax-essentially, a 10% sales levy that will hit virtually everything from razor blades to Rolls-Royces...
...rents would be based on 1967, unit rates, which predate the skyrocket in Cambridge rent rates. Landlords would then be allowed a 30 to 35 per cent increase on the 1967 rates based on rises since that time both in operating costs and the cost of living index...
...central Siberia. The cartel is bargaining for a 25-year deal to transport, in liquid form, some 2 billion cu. ft. of natural gas daily -about three times as much as all of New England now uses every 24 hours. U.S. demand for imported natural gas is expected to skyrocket in the near future, since projected needs far outstrip the available supply at home. Final agreement on the deal may be some time off; it undoubtedly depends on a settlement of broad trade questions between the U.S. and Russia, including Moscow's demand for most-favored-nation status...