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...URI was on the defensive from the opening faceoff, as Harvard poured in three goals in the first minute of play. By the end of the first half, Harvard held a 17-goal lead...
Brown does have good halfbacks in Gary Bonner and Tom Spotts, both former high school All-Americans, but its quarterbacking is non-existent. The defense was a wet noodle against URI...
Brown has a losing series record against every team it plays except URI, and Rhode Island didn't score a point during the first 17 years of the series...
...Israelis have the edge in pilot skill, plane performance and radar- and radio-control systems. That has bred in them a measure of cockiness and that hard-to-define quality known as chutzpa, or sheer gall. Colonel Uri Yarom, an Israeli helicopter pilot, once gave a classic demonstration of chutzpa when he was dispatched to evacuate an injured sailor from an Israeli freighter in the Mediterranean. Yarom's gas ran low before he could find the freighter; noticing that U.S. helicopters were landing aboard the 40,000-ton Sixth Fleet carrier Wasp, Yarom followed them onto the deck...
RAIN RAIN RIVERS, by Uri Shulevitz (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $4.50). A lyrical portrait of rain from the drips on the windowpane to rushing rivers. The author's blue and green line and wash drawings look appealingly wet and moody...