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Well, Bob Scalise has a team; and much to his delight, he also has a center forward who knows where to be when there's scoring to be done. But if you asked the sophomore from Groton, Conn. why she's such a talented spearhead to the Harvard women's soccer attack, she'd be the last person to give you a good reason...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: St. Louis: Modesty Tempers Success | 11/15/1978 | See Source »

Scoring machine Sue St. Louis, who manufactured 17 tallies in 1977, returns to spearhead the offense which looked even more devastating than last season's yesterday in practice. Brynteson, on the right wing, Ellen Hart playing inside with St. Louis, and Cat Ferrante, a freshman coming off two years of high school soccer plus a summer of pick-up games with neighborhood boys, make up a front line almost as intimidating as the Cosmos store-bought international front...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Talented Women Booters Prepare to Crush Tufts | 9/30/1978 | See Source »

Captain, All-ECAC linebacker, and hired assasin Bill Crowley is back to spearhead another strong Yale defense. The front line and secondary look strong with five returning starters between them. And as is the Yale football legacy, there should be about five or so talented underclassmen to hit the scene...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: The Ivy Outlook: It's Brown and Yale and Pray for Hail | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...board of governors sits back like a bunch of foolish yes-men and watches two tycoons manipulate their organiztion. Well, that's their problem because it undermines their credibility as a spearhead for a professional sports association...

Author: By Mark D. Director, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The Boston-San Diego-Buffalo Shuffle | 7/14/1978 | See Source »

More promising may be the improvements in the precision-guided U.S. weapons, like the so-called smart bombs that are literally steered to targets by television, laser beams and other means. With their pinpoint accuracy, they could stop many of the Soviet tanks that would spearhead a Warsaw Pact invasion. Although the critical guidance mechanisms of these new devices still do not work well when bad weather or smokescreens limit visibility, Collins was certain that "we will solve these and other problems, and the Russians know it." He feared, however, that "if we are going to have a crunch with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Can the U.S. Defend Itself? | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

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