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Captain Geoff Stiles, who won the national champtionship in the pole vault with a galactic 17-ft. 3-in. leap, leads the thinclads into a season that begins with a training excursion to Florida later this week and concludes with a trip to England where a combined Harvard-Yale team will face a combined squad from Cambridge and Oxford...
...companies seem, destined to reap an absolute embarrassment of riches. According to projections by Wall Street's Paine Webber Inc., Ashland Oil, the nation's largest independent refiner, will see first-quarter profits leap by 517% over last year's earnings; one reason is the deals that the firm has been rushing to slap together during the crisis. Last week Ashland eagerly paid an exorbitant price, about $19.50 per bbl. for 300,000 tons of Iranian crude, even though the company's inventories are all but overflowing. Ashland executives had no firm idea of what...
...vulnerable as ever to upheavals in faraway lands. All winter long the turmoil in Iran has brought chilling reminders of that fact, and last week came some of the scariest yet. It was hard to tell which were more frightening: signs that oil prices were about ready to leap again, or Washington's seeming impotence and inaction...
...minute. Who ever heard of a sexy, sauve, passionate Sherlock Holmes, a Holmes with blow-dried hair and visible muscles, anyway? Would the real Sherlock Holmes burst into tears at the sight of a beautiful, helpless woman unjustly committed to an insane asylum? Would the real Holmes leap at the throat of an official in an attempt to kill him? Would he sweat in front of the Prime Minister? Now really, would...
Sola Mahoney registered an admirable performance, soaring to a 21-ft. 9-in. leap to grab the laurels in the long jump. Mahoney also took second in the triple jump...