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Loyal Park, head coach of Harvard baseball, did not begin his 1977 season with the proverbial clean slate, "Let's forget about last year" feeling that coaches are usually allowed after a sub-par season. Park, who had finished his first below-.500 campaign in eight years as head coach, went into his ninth closely watched by critics who deemed it necessary to malign the man when his team failed to garner any post-season honors for the first time since Park succeeded Norm Shepard...
...Trident sub costs $949 million. Our new high school cost $3 million. Is a sub worth 316.33 schools...
SOMALIA. Pop. 3.17 million. Chief exports: livestock and bananas. Religion: Islam. Military regime closely allied with Moscow since 1969. The well-equipped military includes 25,000 men and one of the largest tank forces in sub-Saharan Africa. The Soviets have installed a large, tightly guarded missile base at Berbera to service missile warships. Neighboring nations fear that land-based missiles might be brought in as well; that could not only threaten the nearby strait of Babel Mandeb, but also the entrance to the Persian Gulf at Hormuz 1,300 miles away...
Plotting Ways. That is only the start of the campaign. Cabinet and sub-Cabinet officials are being issued informational packets to help them weave a pitch for the energy program into just about any speech they have scheduled to any kind of audience anywhere in the country. The President himself is unlikely to miss a chance, no matter what the context, to tuck in a remark or two on moral equivalents of war and the like. The Democratic National Committee and local party officials are putting together energy task forces to sell the White House policy to civic groups...
...Oxford. In 1898 he showed up in China with faked references; 15 years later he shipped the Bodleian some 17,000 volumes of chinoiserie; later he contributed 18 manuscripts that were blatant forgeries and promised other treasures that did not exist. During World War I, as a sub rosa operative, he embroiled high British officials and even the King in a plot to procure from neutral China at least 200,000 rifles. They never materialized. A few years later, he flimflammed an American firm that sought to print banknotes for the Chinese...