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...sophomore returning from a leave of absence, Lee Nelson came off the bench Saturday to spark a rusty Crimson offense to a pair of goals as Harvard picked up a 2-1 victory in its season opener...
...someone who has not been in Washington for most of his adult life?as Ford has?can provide the new ideas and fresh vision demanded by the times. Carter also plans to go this week to Chicago, where Mayor Richard Daley is whumping up a mammoth torchlight parade to spark a drive aimed at capturing Illinois and its 26 electoral votes...
...mile. Technology was also refined. Emission-control devices, always the enemies of fuel economy, were built in, not slapped on, making for more efficient engines. Ignitions were more precisely tuned. GM's Delco-Remy division developed an electronic gizmo called MISAR, which monitors driving conditions and adjusts ignition-spark timing for optimal performance (for now, only the Oldsmobile Toronado sports the device at GM, although Chrysler has installed a similar device on several models). By 1976, the GM fleet average had risen to 16.6 m.p.g. With the 1977 models it will jump 10%, to 18.3 m.p.g...
...High Sierras of Northern California produced more muscles, more sober thoughts and a net profit of 80?. The next stop on his pilgrimage, college, was less of an ordeal. Still, despite his being a leading campus socialist at the University of Minnesota-a protester against the ROTC, a spark of the Jacobin Club and a charter member of the "first American student movement"-Sevareid could write a dozen years later: "I remember only struggle . . . emotional exhaustion...
...real quest of both sets of thieves is for some spark of genuine humor amid all these outrageous contrivances. The screenplay is little help. It keeps turning up yokel lines like, "Paris - that's near Europe and Asia." Caan and Gould fall back on a series of frantic semaphores to the audience, calling attention to how adorably prankish they are being. Director Mark Rydell's notion of how to give shape to a scene apparently is to make it louder and faster. This does produce an occasional laugh, just as somebody pounding a piano with a baseball...