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...first place finisher Paul Gompers, Harvard proved it will be a force in the Ivies this year, and raised its record to 3-0. The hilly course posed little problem for the Crimson, which has been training on a ski slope and was well prepared for the meet Optimal conditions--cool weather and a dry course helped runners to excellent times...
...resting place, the barge under the plant was sunk in a dozen feet of water, forming a man-made foundation for the plant. When the STP finally starts working in mid-1984, it will help Arco, Sohio and nine other oil companies get more oil out of their North Slope wells. Water will be drawn into the plant at a rate of as much as 2.2 million bbl. a day, deoxygenated and heated from the Beaufort Sea's 28° to 40°. Then it will be pumped to another plant ten miles away, there to be heated...
...Misawa family had lived in Nagano, which means long field, for a thousand years, most of the time as rice growers. After the war, in which he lost both brothers, Daimaru Misawa bought land inexpensively on the dry slope. He cleared mountain pine and, with other villagers, put in a cooperative irrigation system. In the '50s he built a home, then a larger one ten years ago. His 4.4-acre farm is about twice the average acreage here, and his grapes, apples, peaches and melons have done well. The eldest son, Isamu, had just installed a new, promising method...
Other writers, discontent with the standard forms of literary expression have begun to create a new genre, blurring the already eroded line between fiction and nonfiction. Shohei Ooka's The Long Slope recalls the Imperial Army's crimes of World War II through courtroom records of the Far Eastern Military Tribunal; Otohiko Kaga's Ship Without an Anchor is the story of a Japanese ambassador who was sent to America to forestall...
...normally staid Senate chamber, Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah and his conservative allies pressed for a constitutional amendment that would overturn the historic 1973 Supreme Court decision (Roe vs. Wade) that guarantees women a constitutional right to abortion. "The country is on a slippery slope to infanticide," warned Senator Jeremiah Denton of Alabama. "Even dogs have more protection than the unborn," said Hatch. But after two days of speeches in a largely empty Senate chamber, the ten-word Hatch amendment fell 18 votes short of the required two-thirds majority last week and failed by two votes to muster...