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...industry will introduce no fewer than 13 new or substantially altered model lines and drop several others, while further blurring the already fuzzy categories of car size. That fuzzifying began in earnest with the current model year, when General Motors inaugurated the downsizing trend by whacking nearly half a ton off the average weight of its full-size models. This time the other automakers are following GM's lead, with the result that a 1978 full-size car will be about as big as a 1977 mid-size model, and a 1978 intermediate will look more like...
...crafty hurler Rolando Acosta, defeated Harvard and Stewart, 3-1. Clutch hitting and run production were absent, but tenacity and confidence on the part of the Crimson were manifest. "We showed everyone what kind of a ballclub we were going to have," Park said. "The kids showed a ton of confidence here as they did all season long...
...until now, the pattern has been for the Soviet navy to hold major exercises off the Norwegian coast twice a year. Last week, for the second time in less than three months, units of the Russian navy-including the new star of the Soviet fleet, the 40,000-ton aircraft carrier Kiev-took part in practice maneuvers in the northern Norwegian sea. The exercise included an unusually strong display of air capability. The 40 or so ships and 30 submarines involved in the operation were only part of the Murmansk-based Soviet Northern Fleet, which includes 51 major surface vessels...
...Soviet Union's strength on NATO's northern flank has a direct bearing on the East-West nuclear balance. The Soviets have been sending their highly sophisticated Delta-class 14,000-ton nuclear submarines, armed with SSN8 missiles (range: nearly 5,000 miles), ever deeper into the Arctic Sea. Says Willy Østreng, research associate at the Norwegian Arctic Research Institute: "For the first time the Soviets have direct access to the high seas, even if under ice, without having to go through international straits. From that area, their Delta-class subs can shower any part...
...course, it is conceivable that the medical establishment may be wrong about Laetrile. History is filled with examples of medical shortsightedness. In the early 1 8th century, the Rev. Cot ton Mather, of all people, was accused by Boston doctors of in terfering with the "all-wise providence of God almighty" by rec ommending inoculation against smallpox. Louis Pasteur evoked the fury of medical savants with his germ theory of disease...