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Coach Hunt said he was "extremely pleased" with the team's performance Tuesday against Dartmouth. Radcliffe performed exceptionally well on the track to recover from an initial setback suffered in the field events. After the shotput, the discus and the javelin, the 'Cliffe trailed by an embarrassing 25-2. As the track events progressed that margin was narrowed and almost overcome...
George W. Sigular, assistant to the Treasurer, said yesterday that although the quarterly estimates are "just a snapshot of the endowment's value," the current figures show that Harvard has sustained its recovery from the setback of the fiscal year 1973-74. The endowment had a market value of only $1.19 billion at that time...
...months and Whittaker Chambers retired to a Maryland farm, the question still nagged: Who had lied? Today, in the minds of many people, doubts remain. But last week Hiss, 71, still denying Chambers' charges that he passed secret State Department documents to Soviet spies, suffered a damaging setback from a most unexpected source-the files of his own defense attorneys...
...Democratic primary, Jimmy Carter rolled from his bed in an Orlando hotel at 6:15, cranky and out of sorts. This was doubly surprising, because the usually smiling Georgian had just dealt George Wallace his first thumping in a Southern primary, thus erasing the effects of a setback in Massachusetts a week earlier. Moreover, Carter is expected to beat Wallace again in Illinois this week and in North Carolina next Tuesday...
...decrease in corporate support to universities comes after nearly a decade of steadily increasing donations to education from corporations and represents a sizeable setback to the many schools that rely on corporate support to meet fiscal needs...