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...last spring, Allard stood among the dynamite freshmen that helped spark the Harvard baseball team to an Eastern League championship. He started in left field; the right fielder was Chuck Marshall, whom Restic had just brought in to play tight end. The usual first-stringer, Marshall had played only two plays during the previous three quarters because Restic and offensive coach Al Bruno had decided to go with their two biggest tight ends to aid the flourishing running attack in the heavy weather...
Number one Brian Buckley is out(Knee cartilage damage); Number two mike Buchanan is out (sprained ankle); Number three Ron Cuccia may play some splitend but not quarterback (pulled hamstring). Mark Marrion, the fourth stringer who endured such a pough afternoon at Dartmouth will get the call again...
...Crimson gridders (4-1, 2-1 Ivy) will head south to Princeton (2-3, 1-2 Ivy) today knowing that they will send their fourth-string quarterback against the streaking Tigers Saturday. Coach Joe Restic has received word that second-stringer Mike Buchanan's sprained ankle will definitely keep him out of the contest. QB-wide receiver Ron Cuccia may play Saturday, but his pulled hamstring did not allow him to get the necessary work for a start at quarterback. The long-term good news is that starter Brian Buckley continues to improve and may be ready for Brown next...
After a Jan. 10 news conference in which President Karmal castigated the Western press, the Afghan welcome wore thinner. Two Italian TV newsmen were treated to a burst of semiautomatic rifle fire at their feet when they tried to film Soviet soldiers near the Salang Pass. A Kabul-based stringer for Germany's Der Spiegel had her car tires shot flat. TIME'S David DeVoss, traveling with Dutch Photographer Hubert Van Es, was stopped by Soviets northwest of Kabul when Van Es tried to photograph some newly widened artillery pits. The pair was held in a snow-filled...
...started getting its own way back in 1903 when Gardner Cowles Sr. bought the paper and began distributing it throughout the state. Its sister paper the Tribune (circ. 83,000) is distributed primarily in Des Moines and nearby counties. The Register has six news bureaus around Iowa, an elaborate stringer network and a large, aggressive contingent at the statehouse in Des Moines. Four reporters, two editorial writers, a columnist and an editor are assigned to Washington. They concentrate on topics that have special significance back in Iowa, most notably farm issues. Bureau Chief James Risser won Pulitzer Prizes...