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...shadows fell over the Stadium in the third quarter, both offenses showed signs of their first half potency, but the contest essentially became a fumble bowl, as both sides seemed determined to cough the ball...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Yale Runs Past Harvard, 35-28 | 11/18/1978 | See Source »

...pharmacy in Kweilin dispenses a range of panaceas that includes ginseng cigarettes (for smoker's cough) and Male Silkworm Tonic (for impotence). At clinics in Shanghai, Wusih and Foshan, tour-weary Foreign Friends seek massage and acupuncture treatment for whatever ails them. Frances Aldridge of Key Biscayne, Fla., gets needles in her neck to assuage a pinched nerve. She swears it works. Her husband Frank takes acupuncture for an arthritic foot and thereafter climbs mountains without a cane. Their joint bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: China Says: Ni hao! | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...place setting are three glasses: a big one for beer and two shot-size glasses that will briefly contain mao-tai, a colorless 160-proof liquor that could power China's first moon shot, and a red, rice-based wine that tastes like a blend of Campari and cough syrup. The beer, bitter and warm, is served immediately and may be immediately sipped. The mao-tai and the wine, however, are reserved for toasts, which soon ensue, copiously, capaciously and loquaciously. Most are raised - and why not? - to Friendship Between Our Peoples. One of the first words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: China Says: Ni hao! | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

Amidst azure skies, lung-cleansing air, and 250 cases of cross-country cough. Quincy House retained the men's title in the interhouse meet held yesterday. An impressive total of 163 points allowed Quincy to literally run away with the race. Remarkably, nine of the top 30 runners hailed from the victorious House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quincy Captures Men's Cross Country Title; 250 Set Record for Intramural Participation | 10/19/1978 | See Source »

...inside word is that the University--if it comes anywhere close to fulfilling the goals of the mammoth fund drive--will almost surely cough up $1 or $2 million crumb to get rid of the obsolete electrical, heating and plumbing systems that are supposed to protect the well-being of thousands of Harvard students...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Putting the Houses in Order | 9/30/1978 | See Source »

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