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...crews returned to the four-mile Thames course after a one year absence (the race was held in mid-May last year on the Charles due to the change in the Yale calendar). Despite the fact that the Crimson was just coming off exams the result wasn't much different from the last encounter in 1973, which Harvard won by a whomping 46.5 seconds...
...Ministers of Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands and Norway announced jointly that the best and least expensive contender for the prize was the $6 million American-built F16, designed and manufactured by General Dynamics Corp., the largest defense contractor in the U.S. Final approval by the four governments, expected by mid-May, will mean about $2.1 billion in sales for the St. Louis-based company...
...some extra cushions, though they are becoming thin and frayed. Most (but not all) jobless auto workers collect supplemental unemployment benefits of just under 95% of their basic pay. But Chrysler Corp.'s SUB funds are expected to run out by early April and General Motors' by mid-May. Other unemployed people are drawing down their bank savings and selling off stocks. In sum, few people are totally destitute yet, but there could be spreading poverty and grave social trouble if high unemployment persists...
...Salinas Valley produces about 95 per cent of the nation's lettuce during its growing season (mid-May to early October) and the Teamsters have contracts with every lettuce grower in the valley save one: Interharvest Co., the largest of all, has a UFW contract...
When the latest versions of the playbooks are ready, usually by mid-May, Shula is set for the final stage of his off-season program: planning the upcoming training camp. This, too, is revised from year to year, though it always bears the Shula stamp of relentless organization. Last year many of the days were broken down into ten-minute periods for jogging, machine work and other exercises. Many Dolphin veterans, as Shula himself admits, "bitch and moan" about the regimentation. "But they always do what we ask." Last year Shula asked for a second Super Bowl win. This year...