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Prizes--including trips for two to Bermuda and New York, a mink shawl, and a compact disc player--will be raffled off or given to the dancers who collect the most money. All participants will also receive a prize when they turn in their pledges...

Author: By Cecile E. Kuznitz, | Title: Marathoners Cut the Rug Today for HAND Program | 2/8/1986 | See Source »

Field is scheduled to collect her prize at the Pudding's Holyoke St. headquarters after leading a parade through Harvard Square on February 11. Stallone will receive his award onstage February 18 before the premiere performance of the acting troupe's musical comedy, "Between the Sheiks...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Stallone, Field Win Hasty Pudding Pots | 1/29/1986 | See Source »

SOME ACTIVISTS have conducted a drive to collect the signatures of students who pledge not to fight a war against Nicaragua. This drive has had the beneficial effect of drawing attention to the problems of U.S. foreign policy in that region. America should not go to war in that region because other options still exist besides the ultimate step of war. But more important, it is the U.S. which appears to be attempting to provoke war. Because options to war still exist and because the United States is the aggressor, fighting in that region could not be justified...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Free to Choose | 1/13/1986 | See Source »

Together, the teams were 19-for-62 in the first half, a dismal shooting effort that allowed Harvard to collect 28 rebounds in the half--only five fewer than the Crimson had been averaging per game...

Author: By Jessica Dorman and Jonathan Putnam, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: Dartmouth Trips Up Men Cagers in Ivy Opener; Harvard (3-7) Posts 1-2 Mark Over Winter Break | 1/6/1986 | See Source »

...called male action figures like Mattel's Masters of the Universe. Since 1982, when the line was introduced, California-based Mattel has sold some 125 million creatures, or an average of eleven of them to each boy in the U.S. between the ages of five and ten. Children collect the 6-in. plastic figures ($5 to $7), whose personalities reflect a blend of medieval and outer-space themes, in order to enact imaginary battles between good and evil. The virtuous leader is He-Man, who fights a never-ending crusade against wicked Skeletor. So far, Mattel has produced 34 other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle of the Fun Factories | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

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