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Despite divestment activists' contentions that the shantytown will spark a spring of activism, students viewing the structures yesterday expressed reserved approval of the five shanties and 16 ft. tower...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Shanties Garner Some Approval | 4/16/1986 | See Source »

Coming off a six-day layoff, the laxmen couldn't find the spark that lifted them to a stunning victory over St. John's a week...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: Bulldogs Bump Off Laxmen | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

...almost 210 years, the U.S. has muddled along without an official poet laureate. This lack did not noticeably hinder the work of such natives as Poe, Whitman, Dickinson, Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Frost and Robert Lowell. But it bothered Hawaiian Senator Spark Matsunaga, an avid reader and sometimes writer of poems, including one called Ode to a Traffic Light ("Impartial traffic cop/ That blushingly speeding cars do stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All the Nation's Poet | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

Dooley referred Saturday to the consistent forward in terms that underlined her dangerous scoring ability, calling the sophomore his "spark plug," and describing her play as "dynamite...

Author: By Ken Segel, | Title: Maine-iacs Cut Loose in Bright | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...objurgation, Marcos raised the level of political tension yet again by placing the 230,000-member armed forces on red alert. Under that status, which was extended indefinitely, all military leaves and furloughs were canceled. Marcos' reason: Aquino, he claimed, had said that his re-election would spark a civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Philippines Standoff in Manila | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

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