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...poor nomads, he was born in a yak-skin tent near Pago-Punsum, one of the holiest mountains in Tibet. When he appeared, according to legend, pails of water turned to milk and a rainbow spread across the sky. The infant was declared to be the reincarnation of the tenth Trungpa Tulku, a supreme abbot of one of Tibet's strongest Buddhist sects. A royal coronation, attended by 13,000 monks, followed soon after, and the boy was raised to rule nearly a thousand square miles of farm land, grazing fields and fortress-like monasteries...
...knockdown, dragout encounter at the IAB last night, Yale handed the Crimson cagers their tenth consecutive loss...
Anton was the lone star or the alpine squad, finishing twelfth in the giant slalom and tenth in the slalom. Eric Jewett and Alan Hale, who had figured to aid Harvard's cause, each finished only one of the two races because of falls and disqualifications...
...armed with hammers and iron bars to smash the frozen coal loose from rail cars. "It's absolutely miserable work," said Detroit Edison Co. Vice President Walter J. McCarthy Jr. Strapped for fuel, his firm at one point was turning out only 250,000 kilowatts, less than one-tenth of its normal production. At one Cincinnati plant, the slippery coal would not stick to conveyor belts. Ingenious employees devised a solution: spreading molasses on the belts...
...reflected in the annual Chicago Daily News poll of what most worries its readers. Crime ranked first, followed by high food prices, job security and the quality of public schools. To the credit of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, concern about the presidency has dropped to 19th, down from tenth just two years...