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Harvard's hopes for the upset of the year reached their peak early. After a faceoff to the left of B.U. goalie Jack Ferreira, Kent Parrot angled back a perfect pass from the end line to Dennis McCullough, alone six feet in front of Ferreira, whacked the puck into the lower left hand corner to give the Crimson the lead...
...Dartmouth might come close in a high-scoring battle. But the Beanpot magic entered Fitzsimmon's wand against Northeastern and he has another mission two days from now against B.U. The Dartmouth revellers will have the misfortune today of watching a Crimson team that should be just reaching its peak and is not about ready to be waylaid in the provinces...
...Charles River Dam located in Science Park, Boston was built in 1910 to keep salt water out of the river. Sewers, further up stream, were designed to overflow into the river during peak periods. If the river were primarily a fresh water river the sewage could be absorbed, and treated "naturally" without any noticeable odor, Albitson pointed...
Naked Siege. The violence reached a peak in 1961, when Freedomite leaders raised community tempers to boiling point by blaming the Canadian government for the murder of Peter Lordly-an event that took place back in 1924. Bombs rocked every lonely mountain town from Nelson (pop. 35,000) to New Denver (pop. 564), and finally the Royal Canadian Mounted Police cracked down. A special Mountie D-squad (for Doukhobor) swarmed through the Kootenays, setting up roadblocks, searching Freedomite homes and cars for bomb components, finally arresting some 120 hard-core Freedomite terrorists. The prisoners were given terms...
...aerospace industry as a whole last year saw sales jump to a record $20.9 billion, with its backlog of orders hitting an $18.6 billion peak. This was the same industry that, after its post-Sputnik missile and satellite surge, felt its fortunes sag. As recently as 1964, the management consultant firm of Arthur D. Little, Inc., declared flatly: "Aerospace is no longer a growing market." Today the Little expert who presided over that report readily admits: "The Viet Cong made a liar out of me." This is true-for the moment. Without question, the U.S. military buildup in Viet...