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Blommesteyn, guards Armand Hill and Mickey Steuerer and forward Barnes Hauptfuhrer are the standouts on Pete Caril's 5-4 squad this year. With wins over Fordham, Navy, Villanova and Davidson besides the Quaker conquest, the Tigers have shown a balanced scoring attack and a spartan defense. By holding Penn to 49 points, Princeton's frugal defensive unit shaved off some 30 points from the Quakers' normal point output...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Crimson Teams Face Full Weekend Slate | 1/10/1975 | See Source »

...members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries give those nations massive revenues to invest in the West. The new and powerful image of the oil oligarchs has prompted many menacing scenarios, including New York magazine's recent fantasy about a successful military conquest by the Shah of Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The U.S. Should Soak Up That Shower of Gold | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

Princeton upped its Ivy mark to 2-0 with a 14-7 conquest at Dartmouth. Either the Big Green think that losing the first three games of the season is a sure-fire formula for winning the title, like last year, or they really are in trouble. They have scored a total of ten points this season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elis Shut Out Brown For First Ivy Victory; Tigers Edge Dartmouth; Quakers Tie Big Red | 10/15/1974 | See Source »

...painting, but this is made up for by the richness of detail in Codex Madrid II on his great sculptural project, the equestrian bronze of Francesco Sforza- Il Cavallo, as Leonardo called it, the full-size clay model for which was shot to rubble by French crossbowmen after the conquest of Milan in 1500. It would have been the largest bronze group in recorded history, 23 ft. high, cast upside down in one continuous pour of 158,000 lbs. of metal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Empirical Queen of the Sciences | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

...effort to re-integrate himself with the Stalin regime after a long period of disfavor. Alexander Nevsky is in every sense a one-dimensional film. Its theme is patriotism, and its message, directed in no uncertain terms at Nazi Germany, is that Russia will ward off any attempt at conquest. The film takes place in 1242, when combined Russian armies under the leadership of Prince Alexander Nevsky, defeated the invading German force. Eisenstein uses these events in a less than subtle allegory about what would happen in the event of an attack by Hitler on the Soviet Union. Although...

Author: By Eric M. Breindel, | Title: War: The Soviet Eye | 10/12/1974 | See Source »

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