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What transformed old faithful into a common scold was a series of federal safety regulations. As of January 1972, they required every new car to have a warning system that included a buzzer that screamed at the driver and front-seat passengers until they had fastened their seat belts. But that system was too easy to circumvent. All a driver had to do was buckle up the seat belt and sit on it or simply leave the belt unfastened and prevent it from retracting by tying a knot in it. So beginning in January 1974, the U.S. Department of Transportation...
...crimes remain crimes once committed, and Saturday night added a final theft to the season, as Brown's Lloyd Desvigne sank a game-winning jump shot at the buzzer to nip the Crimson, 56-54, and deprive Harvard of a .500 season for the first time in four years. Tom Sanders's squad finishes 11-13 and fourth in the Ivy League...
...layer underwear, which enables the shanty anglers to go calling on their neighbors in comfort. Many anglers bring along outhouses, furnished with "thunder mugs"-pots with disposable plastic liners. Even fishing is largely automated, thanks to the tip-up, a device that raises a red flag or sounds a buzzer when a fish bites. One Midwestern fisherman has trained a dog to rally round the flag and bark whenever it goes up, thus allowing its owner to concentrate on his poker game...
...Rossi finally scored one for Harvard at 17:24 of the first, and that's how the score stood at the buzzer, much to the delight of the Colgate fans. The Red Raiders upped their lead at the start of the middle stanza as Abbott got the hat trick, but from then on it was all Harvard...
...final buzzer had sounded and the fans began to file out to the subways. (That is, the Harvard fans began to file out. Most of the faint-hearted Eagle supporters had opted to leave earlier in the period.) The Grimy Garden emptied, but the Harvard band played on...all the way to Harvard Square...