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Point guard Calvin Dixon--who can dribble in the IAB as well as he would be able to in the new arena--has adjusted easily to the delay, if a little less enthusiastically than Taylor. "I was really excited about playing Stanford in the opening game in Harvard's new arena," he said, "but then I asked when it would be ready, and when I heard late March or something like that, I just chalked it up to 'wait till next year...
...rushing total set a new school record, and Yale has had some semi-tough halfbacks in its time--Albie Booth, Calvin Hill and Dick Jauron...
...have been uninspiring, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Calvin Klein not withstanding, but they did spawn two social phenomena likely to ripple through the 1980's and beyond. The first is a spreading fear that the human race has brought on its imminent destruction--thanks to (pick one) environmental disruption, the baseball strike, nuclear holocaust, or over-population. Doomsayers include the gloomy Limits to Growth study (on population), former President Jimmy Carter (on energy) and futurologist Herbert W. Armstrong, who once said 'all the prophesies have been fulfilled.' They have called for varying degrees of repentance and reform, to delay...
...Street toward the Administration's program has sent bond prices plunging. Said Reagan: "They're sitting there watching anything they think may change the interest rates and bond market. I think that they're looking through a very narrow glass." The President also mentioned that "silent Calvin Coolidge" was one of his favorite Chief Executives because he cut taxes, kept the Government small-and still managed to preside over an era of economic growth. Said Reagan with a broad smile: "If he did that by doing nothing, well, maybe that's the answer for the Federal...
...Protestant work ethic, which sanctified work and turned it into vocation, arrived only a few centuries ago in the formulations of Martin Luther and John Calvin. In that scheme, the worker collaborates with God to do the work of the universe, the great design. One scholar, Leland Ryken of Illinois' Wheaton College, has pointed out that American politicians and corporate leaders who preach about the work ethic do not understand the Puritans' original, crucial linkage between human labor and God's will...