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And the Eastern tournament heavyweight class will be short on really super athletes, matmen like Princeton's John Seftnor, who is the man to beat. With any luck, Smith ought to finish second and could even nip the Tiger grappler if he can take advantage of Seftnor's one weakness...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Matmen Ready for Eastern Tournament | 3/3/1977 | See Source »

When OPEC abruptly tripled oil prices in the wake of the 1973 October War, the big multinational oil firms meekly surrendered. Blair makes the much-disputed assertion that the companies could have employed their own control over marketing, transportation and refining to try to break the price. Instead, he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Spanking the Sisters | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

"Their fundamentals were terrible," said senior Sue Williams last night. But playing down to the level of competition, the Crimson was unable to capitalize on Wheaton's weakness. "No one was doing anything right," Williams said.

Author: By Bob Baggott, | Title: Cliffe Cagers Thump Wheaton, 81-50 | 2/24/1977 | See Source »

Swollen Joints. Conducted by a team headed by Dr. Irving Selikoff of New York's Mount Sinai Medical Center, the study examined a total of 1,029 people, 638 of whom were randomly selected from both quarantined and unquarantined farms or had eaten food produced on them. The remainder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: New Verdict on PBBs | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

Typical of the agency's shortcomings, says the subcommittee, is the EPA'S failure to act effectively against leptophos, an insecticide that has recently been implicated in an outbreak of nervous disorders among employees at a plant operated by the Velsicol Chemical Corp. in Bayport, Texas. The company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: EPA's Pestilential Oversight | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

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