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That was the start of a harrowing, 20-hour ordeal for Knox, one of the U.S.'s few black ambassadors, and his second in command, Ward Christensen, who was held when he called at the residence later. The kidnapers demanded the release of 31 political prisoners held in the infamous Dessalines barracks. They picked Knox as hostage because, as he explained later, "I had a certain influence here...
From Nov. 25 to Jan. 21, the sun does not rise above the horizon in Tromsø or in the rest of Norway's far north, leaving the region in darkness except for an hour of gloomy twilight at noon. TIME's Oslo correspondent, Dag Christensen, describes the scene at midday: "As the jet speeds northward, you see the moon shining brighter every minute. You glimpse small, isolated settlements, clusters of fishermen's houses along the rugged coast, and little farms at the foot of the towering mountains. As you approach Tromsø the faint, fading twilight...
...Currier; Deborah M. Winn '73, Lowell; Carolyn A. Longacre '73, Leverett; John S. Veach '73, Mather; Loe E. Sheehy '73, Winthrop; Ron Vender '73, Kirkland; Laurie Quaries '73, Dunster; Beth Goldman '73, Eliot; Catherine Bence '74, South; Earl P. Steinberg '74, Quincy; and David Smith '73 and Carlyn Christensen '74 from the Yard...
...were two matches where Harvard stood a chance to pick up points. Navy has Eastern champions at 118, 134, and 142, and Navy coach Ed Peery feels that sophomores Robert Hartman (158) and John Christensen (167) are the heart of his line-up's strength...
...stands his box on a clear plexiglass base. Robert Irwin, another westerner, showing in Boston for the first time, projects lights on an acrylic semisphere to create an illusionistic, technological flower. David Diao and Philip Wofford texturize their canvases with drips and smudges in the Jackson Pollock tradition. Dan Christensen has painted a coil and glow like neon lights, and Larry Poons has left the confines of his precisely contoured complementary-colored dots and spews them into space. The room leaves hardedge, inhuman works to another era, and raises the question, "Has the lyrical come back to stay...