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...country a bit underdeveloped? No problem: Strikemaster "has proved its ability to operate ... under actual combat conditions from primitive airstrips." The insurgents themselves might be interested in some of the wares. For example, the Blowpipe is a 44-lb. antiaircraft missile system that can be fired by a lone attacker. On one page is a "cratering kit," designed to blow 25-ft.-wide holes in runways; on another, aluminum runway repair matting (installable by "completely unskilled labor") is for sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Money Can Buy | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

...three doubles matches followed roughly the same pattern. The lone Harvard lapse occurred when Schneider and senior Kristin Mertz, playing in the second doubles spot, dropped a set at love in the middle of a three-set victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetwomen Rout UMass-Amherst, 9-0 | 10/6/1981 | See Source »

...netwomen captured five of the six singles titles and all three doubles matches in the seven-team tourney, enough to accumulate nearly double the points of the second-place team, Boston University. The Crimson's lone defeat came at second singles in a hard-fought, three-set match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racqueteers Take Home Titles | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

...weekend began badly for the squad, with Harvard losing a tough game to the Quakers, 1-0. Neither team dominated, but Penn managed to get off shots while the Crimson seemed at a loss once the ball was near the goal. The lone tally of the game came early in the second half when Quaker Julia Russell scored off a shut corner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stickwomen Blanked By Penn, Beat Bentley; Martin Scores Twice to Spark 4-1 Victory | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

Galatia (pop. 1,023) sits alongside the two-lane tarmac of Highway 34 in Southern Illinois like hips on a snake. Barely. There is a cluster of neat single-story frame houses, a couple of eating places, a bank, a gas station and small supermarket. A lone yellow blinker slows traffic a little. But few outsiders ever stop, and that is fine with Galatians, who have better things to do than chat. They raise corn, graze cattle and dig coal for a living. "Until lately," drawls one miner, "two dogs crossing the road at the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: The Ghost of John L. Lewis | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

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