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Penn's rough, bothersome style of play, which had worked effectively last month to throw Harvard off its game, consistently put the Quakers a man down at crucial moments last weekend. The precision Harvard power play took immediate advantage of the situation.

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Track and Hockey Teams Both Win Easily | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

The Quakers seemed a little nervous in the first round, but they settled down and with cool, detached precision carved the Crimson to pieces in the final two rounds.

Author: By Martin R. Garay, | Title: Crimson Fencers Lose to Quakers | 2/17/1970 | See Source »

"The poor" seems such a poignantly simple Anglo-Saxon expression. Yet previous Democratic Administrations, abetted by sociologists, made them "the disadvantaged" or "the culturally deprived." Now a memorandum in the Office of Economic Opportunity (a title that is another Thalidomide child of the language) has dictated that "the poor" shall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Words for the Poor | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

UNEMPLOYMENT in the U.S. no longer means breadlines and deprivation, but the reality of joblessness still brings painful changes to the people who make up the statistics. If unemployment continues long enough, it can often lead to the loss of one's home or car, to the unpleasant need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: What It Is Like to be Laid Off | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

The biosphere (see chart, page 59) is an extraordinarily thin global envelope that sustains the only known life in the universe. At least 400 million years ago, some primeval accident allowed plant life to enrich the atmosphere to a life-supporting mixture of 20% oxygen, plus nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Fighting to Save the Earth from Man | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

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