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Anyway, it's nice to know someone's out there thinking about these things. It's hard to see what any of it will do for public health, or any of Africa's or America's other problems, or the idea of a university, or education at Harvard. But midway through exams, it certainly seems preferable to getting bogged down in Lilliputia. The administration is far beyond that kind of thing: If anything it might be compared to the third country Gulliver visited, the floating island of Laputa. Laputa's scholarly inhabitants crushed rebels by landing the island on their...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Trouble in Laputa | 1/27/1975 | See Source »

...Harvard kept on fighting, and only ran out of gas midway through the final half, after having turned a 56-47 deficit into the 60-60 deadlock...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Boston College Whips Crimson in Beanpot, 86-77 | 1/17/1975 | See Source »

...Crimson held off the Wolverines until midway through the final period, when Ben Kawa scored on a low screen shot at 8:35. Don Dufek, a 6 ft., 1 in., 195-lb. football star, knocked a rebound past Crimson goalie Brian Petrovek at 13:49 to knot the score...

Author: By Elizabeth P. Eggert and William E. Stedman jr., S | Title: Icemen Drop Only One Vacation Contest... | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

...will be required in next year's linkup. (The description was somewhat misleading since the Russian ship will be the passive partner during the rendezvous; Apollo will do all the critical maneuvering.) The Russian spacemen also reduced cabin pressure to about 10 Ibs. per sq. in., or roughly midway between Apollo's 5 p.s.i. and the sea-level atmospheric pressure (14.7 p.s.i.) normally maintained in Soyuz. The same step will be taken during the joint mission before the cosmonauts transfer to the Apollo. Less difference in pressure will reduce the time they must spend in a decompression chamber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rehearsal for 1975 | 12/23/1974 | See Source »

...Bruin squad, a combination of the freshman and Junior Varsity players, had a strong edge in experience over the Crimson Yardlings and capitalized on it by jumping off to a quick 3-0 lead midway through the first stanza...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frosh Hockey Team Drops Tough One, 7-6 | 12/17/1974 | See Source »

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