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...around Thanksgiving that the square-bowed towboat Cooperative Vanguard revved up its diesels in St. Paul and headed down the Mississippi, bound for St. Louis. In its charge: an unwieldy string of 15 barges, each filled with 1,500 tons of corn, soybeans or other grains that were being rushed to market late in the navigation season to capitalize on rising prices. The 680-mile trip usually takes six to ten days, depending on the traffic at the 26 locks and dams along the way. This time the floating entourage did not reach its destination. A sudden blast of arctic...
...NOTEBOOK: Junior Joe Carrabino paced the squad with a team-high 20 points and eight rebounds ... Bob Ferry and Arne Duncan contributed 12 pots each ... Harvard is out of action until January 30 when it hosts New York University. The squad gets a chance to break the string of road defeats' when it travels to Columbia and Cornell on February...
...life. Robert J. Murray has had first-hand experience with national security, from the Marine Corps through a string of positions in the Department of Defense. But only three months after entering the relative calm of academia by taking a job at the Kennedy School of Government, Murray was called back out to the front lines, this time to Beirut...
Cambridge officials have found a string of sanitary violations in the kitchen that serves five Harvard dining halls...
...marvel of classic grace achieved through proportion and soft pleating. Pants, which Saint Laurent thinks may be his biggest contribution to fashion, have clear, economical lines, never exaggerated, never mannish. Good tailoring is behind what is truly his greatest influence on clothing, the huge (172 outlets) international string of Rive Gauche shops, started in 1966, that sell Saint Laurent's ready-to-wear line. There are only a few examples in the museum show; Vreeland insists that the pieces are hard to find because owners refuse to part with treasures like the YSL classic military overcoat for the nine...