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...first and second novice boats finished 23rd and 34th in the field of 43 women's eights. The Radcliffe lightweights took 28th...
Usually, I go to a Carolina game over the holidays with a friend I call Gomer. This year I didn't get to one, but watched a few on T.V., including the last second 60-58 victory over Marquette in Carolina Coliseum. It was the 28th straight victory in Columbia, S.C., as the Gamecocks have not lost on their home court since a fight-marred contest with Marquette two years earlier, 72-71. In the first game, Marquette took the win with a shot in the waning seconds of play. In this year's version, the stellar Carolina guard...
...28th session last week, the U.N. General Assembly adopted overwhelmingly* a resolution declaring that Portugal represents only its European population and not the peoples of its three African territories -Guinea-Bissau, Angola and Mozambique. A month earlier the Assembly had formally recognized the rebel government of Guinea-Bissau by 93 to 7 (with 30 abstentions). Both actions were purely academic, since the Portuguese are still firmly in control in all three territories. But they called attention, as they were intended to do, to the brush-fire wars that are simmering in the African domains of Europe's last...
...Paul M. Zoll, professor of Medicine, is one of two scientists who will receive the 28th annual Albert Lasker Clinical Research Award in New York today. Zoll won the award for his work on the electrical control of heart rhythm which led to the development of the pacemaker...
...order convened in 1965 one of its rare "general congregations," both to elect a successor and adjust its ways to the council's rapprochement with the modern world. Jesuit superiors and provincial representatives from around the world converged on Rome. The man they elected as the society's 28th general (to serve, like the Pope, for life) was a career missionary named Pedro Arrupe, the first Basque to head the order since Ignatius himself. Something of a mystic, also like Ignatius, Arrupe, now 65, presides over the troubled order today with disarming calm and good cheer...