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...lightweights, also rowing on the Charles, conquered MIT and Dartmouth to cop the Biglin Bowl, while the Radcliffe Black and Whites had mixed results in races at Dartmouth...

Author: By Peter G. Wilcox, | Title: Harvard Heavies, Lights Take Crowns; Radcliffe Crews Race to Third, First | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

...Warsaw Pact military exercises, with their World's Fair name of Soyuz '81, were coming to a close. Brezhnev's speech was all the more welcome following the growls of Czechoslovak President Gustáv Husák the day before. The game was good-cop-bad-cop, but it worked. So much, then, for the impressive show of force. To be sure, the Soviets might be lying about the troop withdrawal, might be pulling another Czechoslovakia '68 by cutting out temporarily only to set up an imminent invasion. But, at least for the moment, many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Art of Making Threats | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

Nighthawks boils down to just another cop-cum-chase scene thriller, with little action, less plot, and no originality. It is a pity that the film was released now: it might have made good drive-in fare. At last, we see the truth about the Italian Stallion: Rocky was a fluke, a rough-cut diamond of a film. By Stallone's inability to break out of the mold of the illiterate boxer, we perceive that the man cannot act any role but that of Sylvester Stallone. He is doomed to be the matinee idol, the star of B-movies like...

Author: By Laura K. Jereski, | Title: Nightmares | 4/15/1981 | See Source »

Thomas W. Danehy, former mayor of Cambridge and currently a city councilor, started running around Fresh Pond when he was 17. Now he jogs there at least six times a week and says. "If you're not at the pond before 8 a.m., you almost need a traffic cop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jogging: A Tradition, A Passion, In Cambridge | 4/14/1981 | See Source »

...Cops are coming!" somebody yells, 400 policement, clad in storm helmets and gas masks, armed with rifles and riot sticks, charge University Hall in systematic thrusts. State police drag bloodied protesters out of the building, where they will arrest nearly 300. "If you don't stay there I'll break your fuckin head," a cop shouts. Still the students chant. "Smash ROTC...

Author: By Charles D. Bloche, | Title: ROTC: Making a Comeback | 4/8/1981 | See Source »

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