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...homer in the tenth inning last night gave the Boston Red Sox a 4-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. The Sox remain one and a half games in front of the Detroit Tigers in their bid for the American League East title. Carl Yastrzemski ripped the two run homer that eliminated the Orioles from the pennant race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOX LEAD BY ONE AND A HALF | 9/30/1972 | See Source »

...most promising of the pros. Tripes, who began riding when he was 11, has been racing professionally for three years. Hooked on motorcycles since the day his next-door neighbor took him for a ride on his Honda 50, Tripes earns in excess of $15,000 a year. In tenth grade, he finds that school interferes with his racing, and he thinks he could earn a lot more if he could race full time. "Some of the people at the school think I'm crazy," he said, his black hair glistening and his brown eyes alive. "But it's better...

Author: By Kenry W. Mcgee!!!, | Title: Motocross: Two-Wheeled Insanity | 9/29/1972 | See Source »

...most serious challenge to Harvard's umbilical connection with the federal government in the Bok era to date bared its tenth last November in a rider-ridden bill. The measure in question christend. A Bill to Aid Higher Education dropped one of Satan's dilemmas on the liberals--to support the bill's increased funding of colleges meant they accepted a harsh anti-busing rule attached to the provision. For the universities, the choice was still more poisoned. At the insistence of Congresswoman Edith Greene (R-Ore.), a member of the House Education and Labor Committee, the committee report stipulated...

Author: By Mark C. Frazier, | Title: Does Harvard Lobby, Or Doesn't It? | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

There were other equally egregious judgments. In the women's 3-meter diving competition, the East German judge on a panel of seven generously gave the D.D.R. entrants the top three scores. Other judges saw matters differently, and the East German girls finished third, ninth and tenth in the finals. In the prone small-bore-rifle competition, Victor Auer of the U.S. appeared to have outpointed North Korea's Ho Jun Li, 598-595, despite raucous heckling by Li's countrymen, who steadfastly ignored the officials' reprimands. When the shooting stopped, the Koreans demanded an examination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Schande! Schande! Schande! | 9/11/1972 | See Source »

...year, and the University will use that figure as a base. Payments will then increase at the rate of 8.5 per cent a year, the estimated average rate of income increase for college graduates. On a loan of $4000, first-year payments would be $90 per quarter and tenth-year payments $207 per quarter...

Author: By Steven Reed, | Title: Harvard Devises a Plan To Combat Tuition Rises | 9/1/1972 | See Source »

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