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...preliminary election later this week will narrow the field of candidates to eight women and eight men. On October 10-12, students will choose among those 16 to select the final eight marshals--four each to represent Harvard and Radcliffe...
Among other initiatives, a majority of the committee recommended instituting some form of a pro bono requirement, a measure which was also supported by a narrow majority of students in a school-wide referendum last year...
...idea arose of placing our missile units in Cuba. Only a narrow circle of people knew about the plan. We concluded that we could send 42 missiles, each with a warhead of one megaton. We picked targets in the U.S. to inflict the maximum damage. We saw that our weapons could inspire terror. The two nuclear weapons the U.S. used against Japan at the end of the war were toys by comparison...
...Bill, set up a friendly little thrift that eventually became Mile High Savings and Loan. He was doing just what Congress had envisioned when it carved out a role for S&Ls in the early 1930s. Limited by law to making home loans and earning the narrow profit margins provided by a relatively stable real estate market, Mile High was helping propel the great American Dream of home ownership for everyone...
...Francisco was. With only 4:58 elapsed in the second half, substitute Sue Maximovitch converted a crossing pass from the right corner past Harvard netminder Brook Donahoe to narrow the Crimson's lead...