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...make matters worse, after the Northeastern trek, Harvard will have to gear up for two of the toughest ECAC opponents it will face all year, third-ranked Clarkson and eighth-ranked St. Lawrence...
Indeed, the Crimson had more than the skillful Cornell team to overcome. After the Big Red tied it up, the 3822 faithful kept their team in high gear with their characteristically obnoxious (obscene?) antics...
...Commander Mitsuo Fuchida's bomber circling overhead, antiaircraft fire knocked a hole in the fuselage and damaged the steering gear, but Fuchida couldn't take his eyes off the fiery death throes of the Arizona. "A huge column of dark red smoke rose to 1,000 ft., and a stiff shock wave rocked the plane," he recalled years later, when he had become a Presbyterian missionary. "It was a hateful, mean-looking red flame, the kind that powder produces, and I knew at once that a big magazine had exploded. Terrible indeed...
...American middle classes spent their eight years under Reagan spending, trying to live up to the glitz. Image was everything, and Polo was the rage. The Polo store, with its antiqued mahogany, riding gear and posh addresses crafted an image of a glorious Edwardian gentry past that America never...
...first "engine management" chips debuted, some bright young computer types broke the coding and discovered that the tuning devices supplied by the manufacturers were designed for average drivers using low-octane fuel and left considerable room for improvement. With some minor adjustments, the processors that control engine timing and gear shifting could be reprogrammed for speed demons burning high-test to increase horsepower anywhere from...