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Harvard's new "diamond" defense stresses strength up the middle and is designed to meet the ball at midfield. The fullback line operates on a moving tandem, designed to meet an attack coming up the wing and simultaneously providing protection in front of the cage...
...under the rules of protocol. Mao may still be the Chairman, but Chou has emerged as China's unquestioned chief executive officer, ruling the country through what amounts to a working coalition of old-line-and old-aged-party bureaucrats and army officers. In Peking, Chou works in tandem with Army Chief Huang Yung-sheng, 65, an earthy, untraveled man who has little in common with the urbane, sophisticated Premier...
...switching other genes on and off at just the right moment during the involved process of protein manufacturing. Harvard Biochemist Charles Thomas, however, supports a more radical idea. He thinks that the repeated segments are actually "slaves" of a "master" gene from which they have been copied. Working in tandem, explains Thomas, such "slaves" could produce proteins more quickly and efficiently?though, he admits, not necessarily in greater diversity...
Secondly, the 4-4-2 appears better suited to the talents of the individual forwards on the Crimson squad. Solomon Gomez and Charlie Thomas, who combined for 31 goals last year, are probably the two most dangerous scorers in the Ivy League. At the striker positions, the Gambian tandem will be in position to score at any moment...
...Gregory, 30, piloted a cab followed by tandem 26-ft. trailers carrying 20 tons of cargo. Neither Gregory nor his partner, Chuck Graves, 42, knew what they were hauling. "Guess we could look, but we usually don't," said Gregory. He complained of a headwind that could add ten hours to the 59 allotted by his company for the Los Angeles run. "It'll knock you down a whole gear," he said. "You get damn tired of pushing all the way to L.A. in ninth...