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...lighting for the upcoming Loeb Ex show, Six Characters in Search of an Author should keep him from feeling the letdown he expects when his first Harvard produced play closes. "It's a let down that a play can just disappear I know it won't be the old chestnut type of play that will make people say Let's do Common Knowledge again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Observation Post | 10/19/1983 | See Source »

...Crimson now 2.0 in the Ivies, travels to Chestnut Hill to take on Boston College tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women's Soccer | 10/11/1983 | See Source »

Several seemingly minor imbroglios kept relations icier than ever. Consider the Hukuang Railroad bonds affair, a legal chestnut dating back to securities issued by the imperial Chinese government in 1911. Last year a U.S. district court in Alabama issued a default judgment against China to the tune of $41 million owed on the bonds. When the U.S. granted political asylum to the young Chinese tennis star Hu Na in April, the Chinese bristled and cut back on a whole range of cultural exchange agreements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Medium Leap Forward? | 10/10/1983 | See Source »

...have read your article on "Ponzi Payment." Found it interesting, but none too accurate. My hair is neither chestnut nor grey. It's gone. Have never worn lavender pajamas nor pink ribbons on my night shirt. Fur coat and overshoes on cold nights have been my limit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 5, 1983 | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...thoroughbred been so heavily favored to win racing's Triple Crown. The wonder horse called Secretariat had won impressive victories in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness. Still, going into the $150,200 Belmont Stakes, the last and longest (1½ miles) of the three classics, the strapping chestnut colt was bucking the very formidable odds of history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT 1973: One, Two, Three! Secretariat Wins the Triple Crown | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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