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...horse is Pleasant Colony, winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness. The big race is Saturday's Belmont Stakes, final jewel in the Triple Crown of American Thoroughbred racing. Pleasant Colony occupies a stall midway down the shed row, his needs tenderly ministered to by a groom, his well-being protected by a round-the-clock guard detail. But Barn No. 48 is more than the home of Pleasant Colony. It is the domain of Johnny Campo, the controversial trainer who violated one of the conventions of the racing world by brashly predicting victory for his once obscure...
March 18--The Graduate Student and Teaching Fellow Union launches a strike to protest the newly instituted Kraus plan for financial aid to students in GSAS. During the strike's first day, class attendance drops 30 per cent. Midway through the strike, which lasts ten days. President Bok announces he does not plan to recognize the union or take action to end the strike. On March 21, the union ends the strike because of insufficient support...
Boston put the game out of reach early, snapping off a 19-1 run midway through the first quarter. The streak, keyed by Robert Paris and Cedric Maxwell, put the Celtics ahead by 15 after one, and the rest was a cakewalk...
Harvard's goal scorer, Francesca Den Hartog, kept the seesaw effect going, knocking in her only goal of the game on a blistering free shot attempt midway through the half...
...toughest moment should come midway in the third day. Firing small jetlike thrusters, Columbia will maneuver so that its nozzles face forward. Then the orbital engines will be fired to reduce speed and let earth's gravity pull the orbiter down. As Columbia plunges belly up into the atmosphere at nearly 25 times the speed of sound, gases outside the ship will produce enough heat to create a 17-minute communications blackout. To slow the descent, computers will order a series of linked S-turns. When the ship reaches a 5.2-mile stretch of dried lake bed numbered Runway...