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...exchanges with Maine s conservation-minded Edmund Muskie, but it appeared that the Senator would have the last word. The Democrat's Water Quality Improvement bill, which was waylaid during the 90th Congress, was given a much better chance of passage in the wake of the Santa Barbara foul-up. Even the American Petroleum Institute, which had represented the industry in fighting the bill, now gave its blessings. Among other things, the bill would subject ships and installations, such as oil rigs, to fines as high as $5,000 for spillage. Willful violators would be liable for damage...
...third break after Brown missed a shot and Hardy cleared the board, Dover waited for the flow to catch up and then cut across it from right to left for a hard-to-believe layup. That made the lead six points with seven minutes left. Gradually, Brown had to foul to get the ball and Harvard made enough of its chances to win by a comfortable margin...
Noble was fouled. The scoreboard said it was the fifth team foul against Pennsylvania, but by the calculation of everyone in the stands, it was actually the seventh and thus Harvard should have received the bonus one-and-one situation. Noble made his first shot, but no one alerted the referee who allowed Penn to take the ball...
...from the bench to confront the official scorer--a Harvard student. The coach--arguing the officials should recognize a "correctable error"--ordered the scorer to press his buzzer, stopping play. Penn had shot and missed and Harvard had the ball, but, when the scorer stuck to his five foul tabulation, the officials tagged Harrison with a technical foul. Osowski made the technical foul shot and then Bilsky dropped in a jumper...
Dartmouth worked the ball to pickering--a 6-3 bulldozer. He went up toward the basket and the shot ran into Hardy's out-stretched hands. In a quick reflex, the Harvard junior controlled the ball. Another foul, but Johnson missed the free-throw. In the scramble that followed, Hardy picked the ball off the floor and layed it in the basket with five seconds to go to clinch the game. For good measure, he blocked the last desperation Dartmouth shot--a dangerous move...