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...BARTLETT'S FAMOUS QUOTATION PLAQUE will reside in Durham, N.H. this year in the home of New Hampshire mentor Ted Conner. Conner takes it for his statement to plate umpire Bill McDonald during the NCAA District I playoffs, "You Stink...
...other quarter-man in the Crimson's 440 duet, Joel Peters, put on a show for the home crowd, passing Dartmouth's Joe Durham at the homestretch in the quarter for second place, and them coming back to run a strong 48.8 third leg in the mile relay...
...only New England does not have an operating refinery. The result has been some of the highest fuel prices in the nation. At least five refineries have been proposed from Maine to Rhode Island in the past year. Only last month the voters of the university town of Durham, N.H., turned down a bid by Aristotle Onassis' Olympic Refineries Inc. to build a huge 400,000-bbl.-per-day facility. Their objection: the refinery would mar the unspoiled coastline...
...another proposal is in trouble. The Pittston Co., a big oil-distribution and coal-mining corporation (1972 sales: $625 million), wants to put up a 250,000-bbl.-per-day refinery in East port (pop. 2,000), where Maine meets Canada. Like Durham, Eastport has a glorious, wild shoreline with rocky peninsulas, twisting coves and hidden bays. It also has a deepwater harbor big enough to accommodate today's enormous supertankers. But, unlike Durham, it is a gray and decaying town. Eastport is too far from big cities to be a summer haven for tourists, and so its economy...
...division's number-one seed, New Hampshire, hosts the eighth-seeded Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute squad in Durham, N.H.; Harvard entertains seventh-seeded Providence in Watson Rink; Boston University and Dartmouth slug it out in Walter Brown Memorial Rink; and fifth-ranked St. Lawrence travels to nearby Ithaca, N.Y., to take on Cornell...