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Steve headed in the tying goal on a Sean Shapert corner kick at 12:43, then Ken swept up a hat trick in a 16-minute span as the game went from a 1-1 battle to a 4-1 barrage...
...Harvard men's cross country team opened its season yesterday afternoon in a wind-swept quandrangular meet in New York...
Rondonia's native Indians have fared worse than the settlers. Swept over by the land rush, one tribe, the Nambiquara, lost half its population to violent clashes with the immigrants and newly introduced diseases like measles. Jason Clay, director of research for Cultural Survival, an advocacy organization for the Indians, says that when the Nambiquara were relocated as part of Polonoroeste, the move severed an intimate connection, forged over generations, to the foods and medicines of their traditional lands. That deprived them of their livelihood and posterity of a wealth of information about the riches of the forest. Says Clay...
...Crimson men's lightweight crew didn't have as much success this summer. Harvard, which had swept Yale and Princeton twice during the regular season, fell to both squads at the national championships June 11 in Albany. The lights, missing sevenseat Ted Marple because of an arm problem, finished 2.2 seconds behind the Tigers...
Adlertag (Eagle Day) was Goring's name for the first massive bombing raids on Aug. 13. Some 1,500 Luftwaffe warplanes swept across R.A.F. airfields in southeast England, badly damaging five of them and knocking out one. R.A.F. fighters downed 47 of the attackers. The next day the Luftwaffe was back, then the day after, and so began the Battle of Britain, the first ever to be fought entirely in the skies, anxiously watched by ordinary citizens below. Goring had roughly 1,400 bombers and nearly 1,000 fighters, the R.A.F. defenders fewer than 900 fighters. The opposing planes were...