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...Black South Africans accused of treason. Its primary driving force in those days was an English clergyman, Canon L. John Collins, who raised funds in his country and elsewhere to pay for defense lawyers and to support the families of those on trial. In 1961, after one of the longest trials in South African history, all 156 Blacks were acquitted, largely thanks to the efforts of the IDAF...
First-year Coach Maxie Baughan takes over a team that's riding the crest of a four-game winning streak, the longest Cornell streak since the days of Ed Marinaro. Baughan spent the last three years as defensive coordinator for the NFL's Detroit Lions. With only three starters returning from last year's defense and four starters returning to the offense. Baughan will have his hands full...
...company with the longest experience and the greatest mastery of distributing and marketing computers, is gradually developing a hammerlock on the personal computer segment of the market. The IBM PC, introduced in August 1981, has grabbed 26% of sales, dislodging Apple from the top position. Were it not for the fact that IBM cannot produce machines fast enough to keep up with demand, the company might be even further ahead of its competition...
...edged waterfront of Newport, R.I., an upset of such proportions is a very real possibility. Not in anything so plebeian as boxing or baseball, to be sure, but in the patrician world of yachting, where, over the din of clinking champagne glasses, the chitchat is about fears that the longest winning streak in sports is about to end. After 132 years, the U.S. could finally lose the America...
...gulpers (15 quarts per capita per annum), are only now beginning to make that luscious discovery en masse. In the heat-racked summer of '83, people are screaming for all kinds of ice cream, including one innovation that isn't ice cream at all. But the loudest, longest cries are for gelato...