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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...skilled on land and above it, will probably move up from the all-Ivy second team to the top Ivy squad. His mirror image at right fullback, Lorenzo DiBonaventura, played almost as well as Sanacore, while Duggan and Sergienko in the middle quickly learned to play well together and stop opponents from going for Harvard's jugular and drawing blood...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Don't Judge a Team By Its Record | 11/21/1979 | See Source »

However, many observers doubt that controlling the Democratic platform would give DA much clout. For the most part, the coalition is seen as a means to keep Ted Kennedy honest on the left, especially in his economic policies. They want to stop his slide to the political center to get elected. But since DA lacks a candidate of its own--Carter is persona non grata and Brown is not taken seriously--Kennedy has little to worry about in the way of competition for DA votes, which probably explains why he decided not to speak before the conference at its Saturday...

Author: By Mark R. Anspach and James G. Hershberg, S | Title: Setting an Agenda for the '80s | 11/21/1979 | See Source »

University officials stressed that the crisis is mostly over. "The Washington dump will reopen soon," Walter Milne, an MIT spokesman, said, adding that MIT had never been in immediate danger of having to stop research efforts...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Councilors, University Officials, Santa Discuss Radioactive Waste Questions | 11/20/1979 | See Source »

Still, signs of inner strain were there: the chain-smoking, the use of drugs to get going in the morning and to stop at night, the increasingly heavy drinking. His remarkable face became a relief map of a ravaged land; Auden said he looked "like a wedding cake left out in the rain." Osborne does not flinch from presenting such evidence, but neither does he seem to know what to do with it: "On the Atlantic crossing back to England, he was uncharacteristically miserable, and on one occasion burst into tears, confessing to Isherwood that he could never find anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Leader of the Gang | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...football games get out of hand, sacking the quarterback becomes an exercise that any number can play. That's the way it has been for Jimmy Carter since early in this political season. If Brezhnev, Castro, Schmidt, Begin and Lopez Portillo could do it, who's to stop William Safire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Soft on Issues, Sharp on Scores | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

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