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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After suffering an opening loss to Villanova, UMass came back to thrash a hapless Maine squad last Saturday, 38-14. They also lost a scrimmage with Columbia early in the season, but the transitive law, though it works in mathematics, does not necessarily apply to college football (what laws do?), and as Harvard coach Joe Restic said yesterday, "We have no way of knowing what players played and for how long...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Football Squad Fit to Face Saturday's Battle With UMass | 9/27/1979 | See Source »

Restic says he will try to play as many players as possible both because it is a home game with no roster limit and because he feels that depth could become a problem this season. In particular, he hopes to give back-up quarterback Mike Buchanan some playing time. "You have to try to protect yourself," Restic said. "We could be in real trouble if some of our key people get hurt...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Football Squad Fit to Face Saturday's Battle With UMass | 9/27/1979 | See Source »

...Passion Play's knight errant, is first found scrounging around New York City for a practice field. His dominant talent and penchant for revenge have driven him from the plush meadows of polo estates. Playing one on one matches with wealthy opponents, writing books about the dangers of horse-back riding, living on a retainer at the beck of rich polo patrons, Fabian has actually earned a living at polo. But he never settles down, he's always after the best polo game, as well as the best of his other two passions--sleep...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Horse Play | 9/27/1979 | See Source »

...level, up from the streets, the factories and picket lines and into the safe seclusion of corporate meeting rooms. Unlike the boycott or strike, his corporate campaign does not demand titanic funding, deny the public a certain product, or force a laborer to stop work and fall back on union payments. Instead, it hits corporate directors personally, not just in terms of profits and production. Undoubtedly, Stevens directors who resigned their corporate posts felt the same pounding frustration and anger that Stevens workers feel in their attempts to secure fair employment benefits...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Ray Rogers Hits J. P. Stevens Where it Hurts | 9/26/1979 | See Source »

...Dylan is serious however, God may have humbled him. The man who didn't look back, who regretted nothing, the singer who was above us all, has been brought down from on high. Now he is a "little too blind to see." He tells us that God can reduce him to tears, that he can't make it by himself. But the funny thing is that however meek Dylan feels now, he still believes he's holier than we. In a very dogmatic cut, he asks, "When you going to wake up?" But he's not yelling at anyone specifically...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: The Gospel According to Bob | 9/26/1979 | See Source »

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