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Leadlocked at 13-12 in a deciding third game, the Harvard-Radcliffe volleyball team pulled out two points to win the first coed intercollegiate volleyball match against a makeshift B.U. squad last night...
...village of Sher Mohammed Pet, on a main thoroughfare leading into the coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh, all traffic must come to a halt these days. A handmade green-and-yellow flag flutters over the makeshift roadblock as youths wearing badges demanding statehood for Andhra step out to tax the traveler: "Hey, you pay two rupees for Andhra." The traveler pays or he does not pass. Shouts of "Jai Andhra! Jai Andhra!" (Hail Andhra) go up as he is waved...
...Asians from Uganda last week wound up their ten-day celebration of Navratri, a Hindu festival of songs, prayer chants and dances in honor of an ancient war victory by the god Rama over the demons of the underworld. The incense and joss sticks were often lit at makeshift shrines on card tables, and the traditional ornate, hand-painted dancing sticks were replaced by plain wood dowels. Displaced and dispossessed, the refugees nonetheless found abundant reason to celebrate. Said one technical engineer, who arrived in London with his wife and seven children: "We are here. We are safe...
Concerned that the remaining staff was too small to provide the University with all the news, Decherd returned to the Stadium, and began an elaborate ritual, beseeching his teammates to forgive and forget. "Deacon," he yelied across the grid through a makeshift bullhorn rolled out of Saturday's issue. "How are we going to fill the sports page...
...world's first nuclear chain reaction, according to all the history books, was man-made and occurred in a closely guarded makeshift laboratory under Stagg Field at the University of Chicago on Dec. 2, 1942. Last week a former high commissioner of the French Atomic Energy Commission took issue with that belief. Addressing a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, Physicist Francis Perrin argued that nature, not man, produced the first chain reaction, and that it occurred in an African uranium deposit perhaps 1.7 billion years...