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Before a stress fracture sidelined her during the Ivies, Jakovic was a stalwart on the Crimson backline, using her quickness to contain speedy wingers, most notably the Bruin duo of Lisa Ching and Frances Fusco in her best game of the year in the first Brown contest...
Harvard coach Carole Kleinfelder tried assigning different women to cover Qualls, but to no avail; even Hall. Harvard's most imposing forward, was unable to contain her. "She's just too strong, we couldn't push her around. As soon as she got a step on you, she got the ball and scored." Hall said...
...discussed in Scan, a tightly written bimonthly summary of the SRI meetings. Some 475 U.S. and foreign corporations pay $12,000 yearly to subscribe to SRI's business intelligence program and to receive the eight-page Scan reports. The next issue of the pamphlet is also likely to contain articles on competition from Japan, the economic and social implications of the "information society," and the growing public antagonism about violent crimes by youth...
Many spectators believe that this objective is unrealistic considering that not one woman on the varsity squad is taller than 5'10". Throughout the Ivy League and other non-conference schools, most rosters contain at least two players over six feet tall...
...option "to fire a nuclear weapon for demonstrative purposes" to deter a massive conventional-force Soviet thrust into Europe. Haig did not say where this warning shot would be detonated. His point, mainly lost in the ensuing response among skittish European allies, was that the U.S. would attempt to contain any future European conflict at the lowest possible level. The following day, Weinberger went before the same committee and directly contradicted Haig's warning-shot-across-the-bow doctrine. Something of the sort had been suggested in the 1960's, he said, but had never become NATO policy...