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There were three big games that autumn: home against Dartmouth, at Brown on T.V., and at Yale for the title on the season's final day. Bob McDermott had three big games that fall, and it so happened they were against Dartmouth, Brown and Yale...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Bob McDermott : A Tribute | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

This might be the nightmare: the nation's 30,000 post offices suddenly shut down and are surrounded by angry pickets, while tons of undelivered mail accumulate like the leaves of autumn. Stores and utilities are cut off from their revenues; doctors and other professionals are deprived of their incomes, the old of their Social Security pensions, the poor of their welfare benefits. Only when Americans are threatened with the loss of their mail service can they realize how much they and their whole society depend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Postal Strike? | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...each year, despite all efforts to keep this tradition a secret from freshmen in the two dorms, voices pierce the still autumn night crying, "HOLWORTHY SUCKS!" "THAYER EATS MOOSE!" After a few rounds of this violence usually breaks out, mainly because Holworthy is still an all-male dorn (most yard dorms went co-ed in 1973) and thus the inhabitants feel insecure and are compelled to prove that they are, well...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Crazy Bob's Tour of Harvard, (Or What's Under All That Ivy, Sir?) | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

...years back into a tough, serious intercollegiate squad. Women's cross country and soccer, though, only in their third year of existence, have reached a surprisingly high level of quality. Fall schedules of the varsity sailing team and the women's tennis team round out the official schedule of autumn competition...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Sports at Harvard: Hard to Figure | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

...Labor Party benches in the House of Commons-thereby letting the opposition Conservatives know they had struck a raw nerve or two. The Tories had fired the first salvo in an undeclared campaign for the election that Prime Minister James Callaghan is expected to call some time in the autumn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Undeclared Campaign | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

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