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Although suffering a temporary lapse in the second game which she lost 16 14. Harrison was invincible the rest of the time dropping only 20 points over three games. The Harvard junior won by taking command of the court forcing Galambos into corners and turning her opponent's apparent winners into near winners through anticipation and quick movements...
...fifteen-minute intermission reversed roles. The previously zealous Dartmouth began to feel the burden of 11 Ivy losses without a win, and the previously lethargic Crimson began to take command...
Then Major Biestek took command in the way he knows best: airpower. With recruits from a local model airplane club, he sent up a squadron of a dozen remote-controlled planes to engage the starlings in dogfights. Said Biestek: "When you saw a flock coming in, you just aimed an airplane at it. The airplanes have a very high fright index. We got rid of well over 95% of the birds." The starlings were only scared to death, not actually dead; no bird casualties have been confirmed. But five of Biestek's planes were downed, two permanently...
...reported bloodbath in Leimus, in which as many as 50 Miskito Indians were shot or drowned, was part of an operation ordered by the Sandinista high command in Managua to evacuate a zone some 50 miles deep on the Nicaragua-Honduras border from Santa Isabel eastward along the Coco River to the coast. Beginning in mid-December, Sandinista forces evacuated or burned between 25 and 40 Miskito villages, allegedly killed an estimated 200 inhabitants and resettled 8,500 to 10,000 more at internment camps in the Nicaraguan interior near Rosita and Siuna. Reason for the Sandinista campaign: the Miskitos...
...know if we're in command now because we're still tied with Cornell (the Big Red best Maine, 8-2, to retain a share of the Ivy lead)." Yale's Bob Brooke said after the game. "But I will any this--if we play like this we'll be hard to best...