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...last time Harvard and Penn met, Harvard snagged a 3-1 victory, after an attempt to put away that game in the first few moments failed when Taylor missed on a penalty stroke...
...write-off will be made against 1983 profits, meaning that the company's earnings will be reduced by the $5.2 billion amount. Explaining the decision to apply the full write-down in a single stroke, Brown said: "It is generally considered more comfortable to take a dog's tail off all at once, rather than an inch at a time." Profits have been lackluster anyway. In the year's third quarter, AT&T profits fell 28%, to $1.46 billion, continuing a long decline. One reason was the anticipated costs of divestiture. Another, said Brown was the "lingering...
...host Bruins struck quickly, converting a sure penalty shot into the game's first score at the 15:36 mark. That Jane Hetrich stroke gave Brown the only goal it would need on the afternoon. Sheila McCarthy provided the insurance, though, at just 1:50 of the second, when a Crimson defensive breakdown allowed her to sneak through the Harvard zone and beat a helpless Lamont...
DIED. Alan Moorehead, 73, Australian-born author of some 20 historical books, most notably The White Nile (1960) and The Blue Nile (1962), bestselling, detailed accounts of the exploration of the river's two parts that read like carefully crafted adventure novels; of a stroke; in London...
...plan had worked-and it came fearfully close-Nikita Khrushchev would in one mighty stroke have changed the power balance of the cold war. Once again a foreign dictator had seemingly misread the character of the U.S. and of a U.S. President. At Vienna and later, Khrushchev had sized up Kennedy as a weakling, given to strong talk and timorous action. The U.S. itself, he told Poet...