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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mass. Maritime goalie Russ Wilson with six goals in the first 8:50 of the game. Faught commenced the pop-gun barrage with a tally on an assist from Hank Leopold, and Martin quickly followed with a first-quarter hat trick before Triton coach Bob Schillinglaw, in a futile attempt to regroup, called time-out at the nine-minute mark...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Laxmen Skewer Tritons, 27-2 | 4/5/1978 | See Source »

Powers said negotiations between Harvard and the Maintainance Trades Council (MTC) of Boston, which represents the 300 B&G maintenance workers who participated in a three-day walkout that ended March 24, will continue this week in an attempt to "resolve all the issues...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Four Carpenters Comply With Reassignment Order | 4/4/1978 | See Source »

...Socialists have lost their wager on the Union of the Left as well as bungled their attempt to be both a catch-all and a rigorous ideological party. The problems they have stated have to be solved by their opponents, who have failed to do so in the past...

Author: By Stanley H. Hoffmann, | Title: France: A Precarious Balance | 4/4/1978 | See Source »

...possible to reconcile the goals of maximizing individual student potential and providing a liberal education. Several proposals before the Faculty attempt to do this. The plan proposed by William H. Bossert '59, McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics, would insure that each student is fully proficient in two separate areas of study, thus allowing students to select their own interests and eliminating narrow pre-professionalism. Frederick H. Abernathy, McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has proposed a plan that would offer students the guidance of the Core without depriving them of the freedom to design their own curriculum. Other Faculty suggestions include...

Author: By Linda J. Bilmes, | Title: Two Views of the Core | 4/4/1978 | See Source »

...part I ever sent him up for, and he's never been turned down since." Young actors currently enduring the rigors of the tough scuffle, or more established ones who still nurse the scars, may be heartened to learn that, in fact, Travolta was rejected in his first movie attempt (for The Panic in Needle Park). He scored on his second, rather more modest call?a commercial for h.i.s slacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Steppin' to stardom | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

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