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Whatever happens, wherever it happens, something will occur worth toasting. Those back-and-forth games, hockey and basketball, are cranking up again, and there are few bleaker measures of how long the winter can be. These last days of baseball will go fast. -By Tom Callahan

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Year Everyone Won | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

Weary from their early-morning trip from Cambridge, the 5-0-1 Stickwomen nevertheless kept pace with the Quakers in a back-and-forth struggle that saw neither team manage a first half score...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Stickwomen Stay Unbeaten, Edge Penn in Ivy Opener, 1-0 | 10/4/1982 | See Source »

...intensity. The vaguely Old World accent of Mr. Glas, at first simply a deadpan foil for Randall's wit, soon begins to play vigorously against him with ironic understatement. Reiffel plays the role with all the control that it demands, sharing in the sense of rapid-fire, back-and-forth timing that make Glas's exchanges with Randall--whether dramatic or humorous--come off so well. The control holds up when it is most needed, at the play's conclusion, when Glas reveals much about his past and his reasons for seeking refuge from the harsh judgements of a real...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Extraordinary People | 11/12/1981 | See Source »

When it comes to the leasing business, most people automatically think of companies like Hertz, Avis or Ryder System. In fact, much of the $30 billion-a-year leasing industry involves the back-and-forth renting between companies of everything from printing presses to jet planes. Certain provisions in the Reagan tax package now promise to shake up, and open up, the entire business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leasing Profits | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...back-and-forth game continued--with the two squads racking up turnovers--until Dartmouth scored early in the second half. Defensive blocking from Barry Ford and Steve Anderson nearly prevented the touchdown, but Dartmouth's Steven El-Masry broke through the Crimson line for six, with Rich Weissman running the ball in for a two-point conversion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Victory Streak Ends; Green Gridders Triumph, 21-12 | 10/17/1981 | See Source »

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