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FURNACES: Cleaning a furnace once a year costs about $50 and is well worth it. A layer of soot just one-fiftieth of an inch thick can reduce an oil burner's efficiency by 50%. Radiators should be dusted regularly...
...strategy is to keep us pinned down protecting our hamlets," says Major General Nguyen Vinh Nghi, the commander of Military Region IV (the Delta area), who is rated as one ofARVN'S top generals. One typical fire-coordination center at Trung Ngan resembles a medieval fortress, with its thick walls towering over watery rice fields. Operating from such outposts, Nghi hopes to drive the enemy completely out of the region...
Tucked under the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, Mass., the dimly lit Algiers Coffee House is a haven for Arab students at Harvard. Over thick coffee and unleavened Syrian bread, they huddle there nightly to talk about the conflict at home and about their own uneasy status in the U.S. The fact that among students and faculty there are few Arabs-and many Jews-at Harvard aggravates Arab feelings of isolation. Senior Omar Rifai, a Jordanian, feels more like an object of curiosity than discrimination, but he claims that he still has to listen to some of his professors say "that...
Crimson fans will be glued to the tube today, but they will also keep a close watch on the game in Hanover between Dartmouth and Cornell. A Big Green loss could really scramble the Ivy picture. Whatever happens, Harvard and Brown will be in the thick of it, which is pretty good for two who were supposed to be cinderellas...
Last weekend Princeton lost to Brown for the first time in 19 years and has little to lose over the last three games of the season. The Tigers should be loose for today's contest. Harvard, in the thick of the title picture, will be under more pressure, as the Ivy title race heads into its final weeks...