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Harvard set the tone in the first inning, loading the bases with one out only to strand all three runners. Holy Cross displayed its aversion to scoring an inning later, when right fielder Rick Rabideau broke from third on a one-out grounder to second baseman Gaylord Lyman, who threw to catcher Jim DePalo for the fielder's chose Had Rabideau held third he would have scored on Jack O'Keele's ensuing single to left...
...James A. Strand Monterey, Calif...
...became leader of the Leningrad party organization and was promoted to full membership in the Politburo when he was only 53. In June 1983 he was brought to Moscow to assume a post on the Secretariat, strengthening his position as a contender. Looking dapper and self-assured with every strand of his silver hair in place, Romanov delivered the main address at the Kremlin gathering five months later to mark the 66th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution...
Using laboratory skills that were unheard of a generation ago, scientists have isolated, put together and manipulated genes, and have come close to creating life itself. In 1967 Stanford University's Arthur Kornberg synthesized in a test tube a single strand of DNA that was actually able to make a duplicate of itself. Kornberg's "creation" was only a copy of a virus, a coated bit of genetic material that occupies a twilight zone between the living and inanimate. But many scientists have become convinced that they may eventually be able to create functioning, living cells...
...still remained. That was the matter of the Government's right to buy 14.4 million shares of Chrysler stock, which had been given in 1980 as a sweetener for the loan guarantees. Last week Chrysler bid $311 million to buy back the stock rights and snipped even that strand. Thus, with the exception of $215 million owed to various states, Chrysler has once again become a company financed entirely by private investors...