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...with only 10 minutes to go and trailing, 11-8, the laxmen seemed out of it, although the blowout that Brown had planned a la 57, had never materialized...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Harvard Lacrosse: A Pair of Big Brown Victories | 4/19/1984 | See Source »

WASHINGTON D.C. Georgetown University has gone basketball mad. The insanity that gripped the campus after Saturday night's blowout of Kentucky in the NCAA semifinals has continued almost unabated...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: What Rocks | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

What could have and should have been close instead became just another blowout. The Harvard men's squash team rolled past Pennsylvania Saturday, 9-0, displaying great depth, and a promising group of freshman...

Author: By Benjamin R. Reder, | Title: Racquetmen Pummell Quakers, 9-0 | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

Visone tried to make it 3-0 30 seconds later, but his slapshot hit nothing but pipe Just 17 seconds after Visone nearly broke the game wide open. McManus scored Yale's freak goal. A potential blowout became a one-goal affair...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Icemen Stretch Ivy Lead As Blair Stops Elis, 2-1 | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...white beaches around Santa Barbara, Calif., in 1969, killing untold numbers of birds, seals and fish, few people were more appalled than William Clark. A top aide to then California Governor Ronald Reagan, Clark closely watched the progress of the multimillion-dollar cleanup that followed the oil-rig blowout, one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. Today, as successor to the divisive James Watt in the post of Secretary of the Interior, Clark likes to recall that calamitous experience to let environmentalists know that he shares their concerns about the dangers of drilling for oil off America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Pouring Oil on Troubled Waters | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

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