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Harvard not only outclassed the Wesleyan squad with individual talent but also moved the ball well using set formations. The basic strategy of these patterns is to move the ball downfield in a series of lateral passes Captains Ralph Harder and Phil Ordway drill the coachless ruggers on these formations each day in practice...
Oldenburg sees the world with eyes as fresh and intent as a child's, and he notices everything. He has collected, for instance, stubbed-out cigarettes. "Everybody puts out a cigarette in a different way, and these are particularly nervous ones," he explains. "A fag end is a basic geometric form-a cylinder-that is altered by a very natural action when it is put out. This interests...
Ground Rules. To accomplish this difficult task, Oldenburg has developed some basic ground rules for his work. The subject first must be timely; he has no use for dead symbols. It must also be an object that touches the body, like furniture and food, or is constantly used, like housewares. "I never make representations of bodies but of things that relate to bodies so that the body sensation is passed along to the spectator either literally or by suggestion." Finally, his creations must have something to do with sex. "If you ignore that," he says, "you're missing...
...speculators clamored to buy German money. In just 90 minutes of trading on the morning after the election, $250 million poured into the Bundesbank from abroad. The outgoing Kiesinger government was in no position to stanch the flow by making the mark more expensive; that is the sort of basic decision traditionally left to the new government. Instead, the Bundesbank freed the mark to be traded at just about any price that buyers were willing to pay. The IMF cooperated by ignoring the rule that governments must maintain their currencies within a 1% margin above or below the fixed-exchange...
...happy with the tangled fare structure on North Atlantic routes. Travelers can be charged any one of more than 100 different fares to fly to the same city-depending upon their age and occupation, the starting point, the time of day or any one of a myriad other factors. Basic round-trip fares from New York to Rome, for example, range between $250 for special groups and $573 for twelvemonth economy. "When you put our present fares through a computer, they come out snarled like spaghetti," says Fabrizio Serena di Lapigio, the marketing director of Italy's Alitalia...