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...Crimson's secondary cornerstone, cornerback Bill Emper, has the challenging assignment of the fleet-footed and shifty Farnham, a task for which he is proven well-qualified. Assisting him will be mean adjuster George Newhouse, second in Crimson overall defense stats...
Died. Reuben H. Fleet, 88, aviation pioneer who in 1918 ran the Army's first airmail service between New York and Washington, and in 1923 founded the forerunner of Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corp., which built B-24 bombers used during World War II; of injuries from a fall; in San Diego...
...preparing his move even before the International Court of Justice ruled that Morocco had not proved its "ties of territorial sovereignty" over the 103,000-sq.-mi. land, which has, outside of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., perhaps 20% of the world's phosphates. All last week a fleet of nearly 8,000 trucks rumbled toward Tarfaya, Morocco's southernmost city, with cargoes that included 42,580 tons of water, food and fuel, along with blankets and tents. Overhead, army helicopters scattered back and forth watching for emergencies, as the never-ending column rolled through its own cloud...
...raise capital, Pan Am has sold off more than $40 million worth of its least efficient jetliners since 1972, but it can hardly keep that up much longer. In fact, to compete in growing markets such as New York-Tokyo, the airline will soon have to add to its fleet new, longer-range jets like the Boeing 7475P, which can serve those markets nonstop. Yet it may have trouble obtaining massive long-term financing for any new equipment until, as Seawell puts it, "we return to a sustained level of profitability and get some meat on our bones...
...boys from Philly are not the fleet-footed folks of a few years ago. Penn has already dropped two Ivy contests, getting shellacked by Brown 4-0 and then losing to Dartmouth in an overtime affair...