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Harvard's quick elimination in Omaha once again raised the question whether Eastern teams, shackled with short schedules and hostile early-spring weather conditions, can compete with teams like Miami that can schedule 50-and 60-game seasons to prepare for the World Series showdown. Harvard, unquestionably a class Eastern team, must play against tremendous odds in a tournament in which the other teams have had long seasons to polish and refine their acts...
...rising cost of oil and other natural resources. As growth disappears, social issues reemerge. Britain, where a coal miners' strike over government wage guidelines led to a bitter election last February, may have the dubious distinction of being the first to experience the kind of political showdown over economic policy that may well spread to other European countries...
...Daily News automated equipment-photo-composing machines that translate strips of perforated tape (produced by special typewriters) into film negatives of newspaper pages. For his symbolic and melodramatic act, Powers was arrested and then quickly released on his own recognizance. The stage was set for a final showdown between his printers and the three major New York City dailies over the issue of automation...
...presidential yacht Sequoia. Such cruises in the past have signaled presidential anxiety, and his inner turmoil was shared by his top aides. They seemed confused and uneasy, fearful that no satisfactory way could be found to avoid a confrontation with Congress and anxious about the effect of such a showdown on the U.S. public...
...Nixon Administration at least gained time; it will be almost eleven months before the issue of relations with Castro comes up again. Politically, this is important to the White House: it wants to do nothing to endanger the support of anti-Cuban Southern conservatives in the expected Watergate showdown in Congress...