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...make it to the top in 1988. But we'll be in control. The Bob Doles, the Howard Bakers are out-through. Unless George Bush makes it, we'll elect the first President who wasn't in uniform in World War II." The second baby boomer, liberal Democratic Congressman Charles Schumer of New York City (age 33), had done his best for Hart in the primaries and, ruefully looking back, said, "The tectonic plates of American politics are shifting. Gary Hart touched them, felt them, but he couldn't shape them. We have other men coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election '84: The Shaping of the Presidency 1984 | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

Psst! They passed with honors. Trivial Pursuit has already sold more than 11 million copies in its Genus, Sports, Silver Screen and new Baby Boomer editions, bringing in $400 million for Selchow & Righter, which is now manufacturing a million games a week to meet the demand. This fall stores will be inundated with Trivial Pursuit calendars, cartoon books and pencil caddies. ABC-TV is planning to air a Trivial Pursuit special. And in January the Queen Elizabeth II sets sail on an eight-day Trivial Pursuit cruise, with Abbott and the Haneys aboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Pac-Man for Smart People | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

...might keep him out of The Game. His understudy sophomore Rob Steinberg, followed Villanueva into Los Angeles' Palisades High School to Harvard, and he may very well follow Villanueva into the record books. Last week against Penn, Steinberg punted for a 46.8 yard average. Including a 59 yard boomer that is the longest Harvard punt this year

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: The comeback kids | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

After RPI suffered two penalties within six seconds, the Crimson had a five on-three situation. Just nine seconds after play resumed. Mark Fusco (two goals, three assists) hit on a boomer from the point to extend Harvard's lead...

Author: By Michael Bass, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Tally Five in First, Hold Off RPI Charge, 7-4 | 11/29/1982 | See Source »

...hats by yesterday afternoon, said John Dennis '86, who bemoaned the fact that they had not places a larger order. But by 6:00 p.m., their worries were over when a group of Dartmouth students hit the Yale campus last night at about the same time with "modified" hats, Boomer said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hats, Rally Psych Harvard For Game | 11/19/1982 | See Source »

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