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...failed to prevent another Crimson bust. But this year, expect something new--a winning Ivy record, and perhaps a first league title...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Aiming a Loaded Gun at an Elusive Target: A First Ivy Title | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...Peter Furniss, a managing director at the brokerage firm of Smith Barney, Harris Upham, chooses a different metaphor. Says he: "It's like a college frat party. The music is loud, and everybody is having a wild time. But sooner or later, the cops are coming to bust up the party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bang-Bang Birthday | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

...sixth week on the New York Times' nonfiction best-seller list. At $17.95 a copy, it has been snapped up by some 175,000 buyers who are either curious or concerned -- or both -- about just how high the current boom can go before it turns to bust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Boom to Doom? | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

...dolphins were captured in 1979, after New York Investor Alan Slifka agreed to help finance a dubious dolphin-human communication experiment. It was a bust. The young dolphins, named Joe and Rosie after the late movie magnate Joseph E. Levine, who produced Day of the Dolphin (1973), and his wife Rosalie, attracted the attention of a parade of celebrities, including Phyllis Diller, Kris Kristofferson and Olivia Newton-John. Some notables even swam with the pair at Marine World/Africa USA in Redwood City, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Joe And Rosie Go for It | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

...judge who was imprisoned and tortured under the dictatorial Greek junta of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Part of his career was dramatized in the 1968 movie Z. But the President has often been lampooned for his intolerance of press criticism and his regal life-style. After the bust, the government of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou issued a statement assuring citizens that it respected freedom of expression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greece: Lack of Humor In High Places | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

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