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...this athlete learned when the hockey team for which he tended goal lost four straight games. I thought it had peaked after a Beanpot loss to B.U. when The Crimson compared my glove hand to that of Marv Throneberry. But the meaning of the term "humbled" was never clearer than on that Saturday afternoon in Ithaca when a lone voice in Cornell's Lynah Rink intoned, "Bertagna, you're not a sieve...you're a funnel...

Author: By Joseph D. Bertagna, | Title: Ten Historic Moments for the Harvard Athlete | 1/17/1979 | See Source »

...more legitimate question, and one that will be debated for some time, is whether the U.S. could have held out for a clearer promise about Taiwan's security. As it was, the Chinese agreed only to the tactic of not objecting to, and thereby tacitly accepting, Carter's assurances that Taiwan was in no danger of invasion from the mainland and that the U.S. would continue to supply Taipei with defensive weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Squall over Carter's Move | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...Burger clearly does not understand what a free press is all about. . . " That should make a free press clearer to the Justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Making the Unbelievable Believable | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...Firestone, the most troubled tire company in the land? Ask Borg-Warner (1977 sales of $2.03 billion), which last week announced a proposed merger that is really an $870 million takeover of the much larger tire and rubber maker ('77 sales: $4.4 billion). The advantages are clearer for Firestone and its unhappy stockholders than for Borg-Warner, which makes auto parts, air-conditioning gear, chemicals and plastics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Daring Marriage | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...problem becomes clearer. "In previous years," Lawrence says, "you came into an empty house." This time, things were different -- most of the delegations arrived at 10 a.m. and waited in the Sheraton lobby until 3 p.m. to get their rooms. Chaperones and their students have been put on different floors...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Holding Down the Fort | 12/6/1978 | See Source »

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