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...past performances seldom mean anything when the Crimson squares off with Old Eli, and Crone in other years has played the script to the T. For 10,000 Men of Harvard, innumerable dates and hangers on, one has to hope that The Zone can reach into his conjuring bag one more time and pullout a trick to bamboozle the Yalies

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Harvard Takes On Bulldogs in Finale; Seniors Seek Fourth Triumph Over Yale | 11/25/1972 | See Source »

Many Czechs, for example, seldom take a holiday elsewhere in Eastern Europe without first stocking up on home-produced articles: textiles, sunglasses and playing cards for Rumania; shirts, shoes, socks and blue jeans for the Soviet Union; fruits for East Germany; bras, corsets and panty hose for Hungary; shoes, textiles and auto parts for Bulgaria. The enterprising Czech visitor either sells the articles for local currency or barters them for liquor in Rumania, coffee, vodka, car parts and a portable color-TV set in the Soviet Union, salami in Hungary, and curtain material in East Germany-all of which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN EUROPE: The Salamizdat | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

...whom many would vote most difficult to elect. Robert Stanfield, 58, an able former Premier of Nova Scotia, is eminently qualified for the job of Prime Minister, in every particular except political flair. He seems to be everybody's fumbling, bumbling "Uncle Bob," a gray personality whose speeches seldom arouse the electorate. A traveling rock band and miniskirted "Stanfield Girls" have been recruited to add color to his campaign -but they are not enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Once More with Feeling | 10/30/1972 | See Source »

...times, it looked more like street rioting than Davis Cup tennis. Indeed, the cup finals, won by the U.S. last week on the rust-red clay courts of Bucharest, seldom even resembled the mannerly game perfected in 1873 by Major Walter Clopton Wingfield as a diversion for English society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rumanian Rhubarb | 10/30/1972 | See Source »

...Hanoi: "It is a city of noises where human conversations are dwarfed by the sounds of war. Hanoi residents seldom see the war; they listen to it from home or street-corner shelters. A piercing wail means the jets are coming, the scream of an engine means they are passing overhead on their way to targets in the city's industrial suburbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH VIET NAM: Living Inside a Bull's Eye | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

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