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Tonight's contest in crucial to the Ivy title hopes of both clubs, and the Big Green, boasting the League's leading scorer last winter in Paul Erland, an improved 6-10 center in Jim Masker, and a pair of fine guards, are out to upend the Crimson...
...other snow layers. They can be caused by rising temperatures that send lubricating water between layers of snow, letting the white blanket slip like a quilt from the bed of a tossing sleeper. Exerting forces as great as 100 tons per square yard, such avalanches have been known to upend steel locomotives, push small bridges hundreds of feet from their pilings and rip up vast reaches of forest...
...Wrestling in his last bout at Harvard. Abbott simply did not have the mobility necessary to upend Matt Jordan, and trailing all the way, lost a disheartening 6-3 decision...
Whither Barataria. At the government's request, a three-member committee, headed by Sir Val Duncan, chairman of Rio Tinto-Zinc Corporation Ltd., has been studying British representation abroad for a year. Their report, just released, may upend yet another British institution. Comparing Britain to "a man who decides that his requirements no longer justify the upkeep of a Rolls-Royce," the committee recommended "a significant reduction" in the size of the diplomatic service, a 50% slash in the size of overseas information departments, and a one-third cut in the number of armed-service attaches. Moreover, said...
...knots on my head from banging against the glass while I'm trying to look out." In addition to watching out for traffic below, a reporter has to worry about ice accumulating on his rotor blades, the wash from a jet that can upend a helicopter-and traffic above...