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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard defense played well despite the absence of two injured fullbacks, veterans Stefi Baum and Sally Kingsberg. The reassignment of players to foreign positions threw the Crimson off slightly but Coach Bob Scalise was able to juggle his players to fill the gaps. Freshman Laura Mayer, ordinarily a forward, did an excellent job of filling in for Kingsberg at right fullback...
McEvilly wasted no time. He lofted a 54-yd. scoring pass to Kevin O'Connor, on the first play from scrimmage. The fleet-footed O'Connor, who caught six passes for 159 yards and two TDs, took the ball at the Harvard 14 and sneaked into the endzone untouched...
With a lack of offense forcing the defense to carry the load, Harvard finally broke--though just for a moment. The lapse was long enough to let McEvilly (12-18 for 251 yards and two TDs) hit a wide-open Paglione in the flats. The burly tight end stretched out a 39-yd. gain before Scott MacLeod collared him to prevent a score...
...mile underground at the Homestake mine two men are at work, dim silhouettes beneath bright balloons of light cast by their head lamps. They are standing in a low, dark cavern, about 200 ft. long and 50 ft. wide, which is just now acquiring a festive look. Long blue and yellow streamers trail down out of the darkness from the jagged rocks overhead. Richard Aberle is patiently connecting up the streamers to make an electric circuit: yellow to yellow, blue to blue. They lead to detonator caps and charges buried deep in the rock by Aberle's partner...
...Homestake, by contrast, has been worked almost continuously for more than a century, ever since 1876, when two brothers, Moses and Fred Manuel, first stumbled on a promising vein of quartz in the Black Hills schist. The mine's total yield to date adds up to about 10% of all the gold ever mined in the U.S. (an estimated 325 million...