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Green Curtain. Armchair psephologists might have expected more of the network anchors, who crammed for the event as if it were a bar exam. Walter Cronkite, who for four years had been squirreling away newspaper clippings and other relevant nuggets of information, went into semi-seclusion weeks ago. Every day he would pull a loden green curtain across the glass windows of his CBS Evening News office and retype his dog-eared files onto pages of a loose-leaf notebook. "I don't learn just by reading, so I rewrite everything and get it into my head," he reports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Long Night at the Races | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

Michalko scored from six yards out, Billy Hill from one and two, the Bruin defense stiffened up and when all was said and done, it was Brown and Yale in the driver's seat, with Harvard a semi-distant third. FINAL IVY LEAGUE STANDINGS W L T Yale 6 1 0 Brown 6 1 0 HARVARD 4 3 0 Dartmouth 4 3 0 Penn 2 5 0 Princeton 2 5 0 Columbia 2 5 0 Cornell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown Shares Ivy Title, Topples Columbia, 28-17 | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

Katz shares the semi-cautious, semi-hopeful attitude of many Harvard academics who have served as long-distance advisors over the last few months, warily describing his active participation and declining any concrete speculation on things to come...

Author: By Nicole Seligman, | Title: Don't Call Me, I'll Call You | 11/6/1976 | See Source »

This Saturday, the squad will take part in the semi-finals of the New England Tournament, where individual players will be judged for the selection of area all-star teams...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Stickwomen Battle to 0-0 Tie Crimson Fails to Show Brown Old Fire | 10/28/1976 | See Source »

...homeland for outside employment, signing up for contract labor with large firms. Blacks who try to organize against their employers or against the state can be sent back to the homeland without a hearing, their pass rescinded. It is this system that keeps wages in South Africa for semi-and unskilled labor so low that American companies investing there receive a profit rate of almost 20 per cent overall and 60 percent in some areas of industry...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Apartheid: Making a Sham of Freedom | 10/26/1976 | See Source »

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