Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What could upset a merger is potential incompatibility between Seawell, 60, a tough former Air Force general, and combative Bud Maytag, 52, a grandson of the Maytag appliance company's founder. The two strong leaders might have trouble working together. But that may not turn into a problem, for Maytag seems ready to get out of the airline business and return to Colorado Springs, where he grew up. National's ups and downs over the years, its labor problems (six strikes since 1964) and the trend toward deregulation and merger all have taken their toll of Maytag's enthusiasm...
...season, the four years of hard work, the hopes for an ECAC title and a national championship had died, some 45 minutes earlier, with a shocking 7-4 upset by Clarkson at Watson Rink, and this turkey--well, no, not a turkey, actually, but a friend--was asking if he had just finished practice...
Walk-ons occasionally make it in Ivy League basketball, but don't count on it at Harvard with bigtime Digger Phelps-disciple Francis X. "Frank" McLaughlin moving into his second year. Harvard upset Penn at the dungeon-like IAB last year, signaling the shape of things to come. By the time the class of '82 has graduated--assuming McLaughlin stays--former doormat Harvard will have joined Penn and Princeton as Ivy powers, and maybe as a national power...
...Prince of Wales has scuba dived, handled a racing sloop and skippered a minesweeper. For his most recent aquatic adventure, Charles, 29, tried wind surfing off the chilly Isle of Wight. Barefooted, he tried to balance on a sailing surfboard but landed again and again in the drink. What upset the royal balance? Harrumphed a British surfing expert: "On a bad day even the Prince of England doesn't stand a chance in hell of staying...
...leukemia in humans. Women living in the area have suffered 50% more miscarriages than would be expected. There is also a high incidence of birth defects among children; of 24 youngsters in the southernmost section of the neighborhood, health officials report four are mentally retarded. Local residents are doubly upset by the suggestion that they leave the area because their houses are now virtually unmarketable, and without money to rent elsewhere, most of them simply have no place...