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Viewed from hip Los Angeles, Orange County has sometimes seemed a quaint appendage sprawling southward down the Pacific Coast, a pleasant afterthought with an odd weakness for white shoes and alarmists of the John Birch Society stripe. To the larger world, the county still summons up images of citrus groves and Disneyland, planned communities and the young Richard Nixon, hard- core conservatism and the late John Wayne. But today Orange County is undergoing a dramatic change, exploding with new wealth. Its economic output has more than tripled in a decade, and its population since 1970 has jumped...
Beginning in about twelve months, new U.S. paper currency will contain a thin polyester stripe bearing the legend USA ONE for $1 bills, USA FIVE for $5 bills, and so on. Called a security thread, the stripe is transparent and will not reflect light. Thus it cannot be reproduced by a photocopier. Around the portraits on the new bills will be letters too tiny for copy machines to pick up that say UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...
...percent in the first half. And consider that Dudley, the Ivy's rebounding and blocked shot leader (as well as third leading scorer) was on all night, eventually pumping in 22 points while pulling down 11 rebounds. And consider that the Crimson played below par from the charity stripe, sinking just 70 percent of its free throws (in comparison to its 74 percent season average...
...scoring bonanza with 78 points Friday night and 70 Saturday...Dudley had four blocked shots on the evening...Four of the five Eli starters finished the contest with four personal fouls. Meanwhile, not one Crimson cager had more than three...Webster went six for six from the charity stripe...Yale now holds an 83-49 edge in the all-time series between the two squads, and has won the last three match-ups in a row...Phillips and Webster each had three steals to pace Harvard...Despite hitting the 20-game loss mark for the season, Roby was pleased with...
Meanwhile, Harvard is connecting at a 75.8 percent clip from the charity stripe this year and was eighth in the nation in team percentage in the latest NCAA statistical report...