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...team begins the trip at a disadvantage because Lindner and Horn haven't been able to work during the week," Harvard coach Jack Barnaby said yesterday. "The players have spark and fighting spirit, though, although I don't know if we can win the games on fight alone...
...what would become 18th century capitalism, and Boyer and Nissenbaum argue that in Salem--where the battle for Village independence and the town's quick development led to intensified conflict and where an influential family's difficulties with an apparently witch-like stepmother provided the kindling to spark it all to life--frightened believers in the old communal ways took the offensive against people who represented the ungodly new ones...
This year's team maintains the standard. The Walton gang includes the likes of Dave Meyers, a rangy shooting threat from outside; Marques Johnson, a strong, aggressive freshman forward; Tommy Curtis, a bandy-legged spark plug and ball handler; and Keith ("Silk") Wilkes, a high-scoring forward who may be the second-best college player in the nation. As usual, the bench is overloaded with reserves who could start for most other teams...
...Elektra-Asylum Records, is not complaining. The tour will help boost sales of Dylan's new Asylum album, Planet Waves, which already has become a Gold Record ($1 million in sales at the manufacturer's level). Two other new Geffen productions, Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark, and Carly Simon's Hotcakes, were gilded last month in their first week on the market. Since the recent downfall of Clive Davis as president of Columbia Records, Geffen has emerged as the financial superstar of the $2 billion pop music industry...
...this house. They used to go upstairs with a candle and that was the only light to get dressed or go to bed by. Drafts in the house were always blowing out the candles, and since there were no matches, it took about five minutes to get a spark by using flint and tinder. Some conservationists will only be satisfied if they can freeze to death in the dark, but sensible control is still very important...