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...Tow and gown relations between the University of Texas and the city of Austin have plummeted to depths unheard of even in Cambridge...
Eleven tugs, like minnows trying to budge a whale, nudged the carrier or pulled with tow lines, but the Enterprise did not move. In a maneuver akin to righting an unbalanced rowboat, the ship's crew was ordered to assemble on the carrier's port side. Their combined weight, coupled with the shifting of water in the vessel's ballast tanks, was meant to tip the ship in hopes of freeing it. But the keel, which normally requires 36 ft. of water for safe clearance, remained stuck. Only with the help of the outgoing tide...
...feeling in the Harvard locker room Saturday night was that the time had finally come. Twenty tow wins, eight losses and tow ties into the season, the icemen finally find themselves where hey knew they would be, headed for Grand Forks, N.D and the final four of the NCAA tournament...
...bought for the same money as F-15Es. For ground-to-air defense, the same outlay would buy 30 Oerlikon 35-mm guns for every DIVAD, the new and troubled computer-guided artillery. For antitank warfare, 30 times as many 106-mm recoilless rifles could be bought as TOW missiles. A comparison of antitank ammunition shows that the unproven Maverick, an air-to-ground missile with heat-seeking sensors, is 75 times as expensive as reliable 30-mm shells...
...Crimson tallied 494 points tow wallop two-time defending champion B.U. by 57. B.C. finished third with 322, followed by Northeastern, Tufts...