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While the Crimson were without the services of All-American breaststroker Mia Costello, Harvard's one loss on the day, in the 100 breaststroke, highlights the team's weakness in that stroke. While such a weakness did not make a difference for the NCAA 18th-ranked Crimson team Saturday, it could against Princeton...
...week's end, with growers scrambling to ship freeze-damaged fruit to juice processors before it spoiled entirely, industry losses had yet to be calculated. One stroke of fortune was that in Texas some 40% of the crop had already been harvested, though this year's calamity, which followed freezes in December 1983 and January 1985, might still force many small producers to the wall. Among the remainder, layoffs seemed inevitable: Abbitt, for one, has furloughed 175 of his 450 workers...
...snub nosed, slow and the product of Stalinist central planning, the Trabant is the ugly duckling of East Germany's roadways. The ubiquitous "Trabi" has not had its flaky Duraplast body redesigned since the first mass-production models rolled off the assembly line in 1964. Its motorcycle- size two-stroke engine coughs out more pollution than almost any other auto. Often the motor's two cylinders come on line one at a time until they sputter in unison in a puff of blue smoke, sounding uncannily like an ancient sewing machine...
Harvard took first place in all the freestyle events. Sophomore Stacie Duncan won the 1000 and 500, while teammate Lynn Kelley edged out her opponents in the 200. Lisa Reed rounded out the Crimson's success in the stroke with a victory...
Havel and company had been emboldened by the response to their call for a two-hour strike last Monday. At the stroke of noon, millions of workers and students took to the streets, shutting down hundreds of enterprises, from huge steelworks to the local Fiat service agency. Not only was the astounding turnout a sharp rebuke to the country's leaders, but it was a warning that a few cosmetic changes within the Politburo would not satisfy the demands for a more democratic system...