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...jubilant women's lacrosse team returned from Pennsylvania Saturday after placing fifth in the National Collegiate Women's Lacrosse Tournament and laying claim to the ninth or tenth place slot in this season's national rankings. West Chester State, the host team, nabbed first place in the tournament when they downed Ursinus, 8-4, in the finale yesterday afternoon...
More than foul weather is behind the slump. Experts on the Soviet economy point out that it has been slowing down for several years. Since 1976, which marked the start of the tenth Five Year Plan, annual growth has averaged 3.9% a year; in the first years of the decade, the average was 6%. The country now faces a serious labor shortage in industrialized areas, productivity has been sagging, and Soviet planners have yet to cope with serious management problems. Says Dimitri Simes, director of Soviet studies at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies: "The Soviets...
...confident of leaving behind an institution that can flourish without him. Last season, the orchestra's tenth, it performed before a total of 100,000 people. Besides occasional national tours and State Department-sponsored appearances abroad, it visits campuses and towns throughout the region as a sort of floating miniconservatory, offering clinics, master classes and discussion groups in addition to its concerts. In its main subscription series at St. Paul's 1,700-seat O'Shaughnessy Auditorium, the orchestra has become all but a sellout, precisely by avoiding safe subscription fare. "A concert hall doesn...
...Tenth place in 1966. My God--the cellar? The Yankees? Eleven years without a pennant. Turn off Phil "Scooter" Rizzuto or Bill White or Bob Gamere (yes, Bob Gamere) in disgust and open the Baseball Encyclopedia, wallow in history, thrill to past glories. Pull out the Strat-O-Matic Baseball game, play the Old Timers teams: '27 Yankees, or '41 Yankees, or '50 Yankees, or '61 Yankees--dice-rolled greatness. "Babe Ruth comes to the plate, the Bambino, with sixty-count 'em-sixty circuit clouts this year, Lou Gehrig on deck. The Yanks winning this ballgame 12-1, winning, winning...
Formal schooling ended for Smith at the tenth grade. Then, through more than 20 years of self-education and training programs, he learned to master topics like atomic weights, valences and isotopes. Ironically, Smith loved the work. His testimony may have made him a hero to antinuclear activists?and all the more so in the wake of Three Mile Island?but for Smith the workaday life with plutonium fulfilled that old American dream of self-made success...