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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brown sophomore played a new version of flag football at last Saturday's football game when he stole the 25-ft.-by-50-ft. Harvard flag, which usually flies above Soldier's Field during games, and hung it from the flagpole at Delta-Tau, a fraternity at Brown...

Author: By Thomas H. Green iii, | Title: Flag Theft | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...That's his hobby. He steals flags wherever he goes," Tomoo Misaki, a member of Delta-Tau, who refused to identify the prankster, said yesterday...

Author: By Thomas H. Green iii, | Title: Flag Theft | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...certain kinds of firms, the first socialist nation to do so. It has also begun discussing with U.S companies the exploitation of its offshore oil. The Vietnamese need for normal diplomatic ties with the U.S. became acute when four tropical storms hit in one week, flooding the Mekong Delta rice fields. The floods destroyed as much as 80 per cent of the rice crop, and Vietnam now needs the American trade embargo lifted to gain access to U.S. agricultural products. While the chronic Third World ailments are forcing Vietnam to push for closer ties with the United States the Carter...

Author: By Tom M. Levenson, | Title: If Not Now, When? | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...tunnel's nerve center is a Honeywell Delta 2500 computer housed in the basement of the Science Center. The computer monitors temperature, steam flow and other tunnel functions. Supervisors work around the clock here, watching the computer and receiving calls that come from maintainance men throughout the tunnels by means of the intercoms and a separate telephone system located at intervals in the passageways...

Author: By Roger M. Klein, | Title: Harvard's Tunnels: Notes From The Underground | 10/19/1978 | See Source »

...powerful position in the state. Unfortunately, the price he has been forced to pay is high. Evers, in an attempt to attract whites, has apparently decided to take a more conservative line than any other candidate. His campaign speeches before white groups make him sound more like a rich Delta plantation progeny than the spokesman for the civil and political rights of Mississippi blacks. Evers's conservative pabulum is almost what one would expect to hear from a George Wallace or a Strom Thurmond: defense of the American way of life from the Russian threat, pursuit of fiscal integrity...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Ole Miss Campus Politics | 10/11/1978 | See Source »

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