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Grouse darting on the wing and sizzling on the platter If you could throw a net over the Highlands in August," wrote English Commentator Horace Cox in 1872, "you could catch nine-tenths of the genius and glory of Great Britain." The reason for this grandiose concentration in Scotland is the wily, toothsome red grouse, Lagopus scoticus, which exists only in the wild state and only in the United Kingdom (particularly on the heathery moors of the north). The grouse season opens on the "Glorious Twelfth" of August and lasts until Dec. 10. For marksmen, or "guns," as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Britain's Guns of August | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 18, 1980 | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

According to popular myth, however, you must go to California or Colorado to find a community thoroughly steeped in "alternative consciousness." Not true. Right here in Cambridge and Boston there are enough swamis for a softball team. Harvey Cox, Gallagher Professor of Divinity, said in his book Turning East that Cambridge is so full of holy men it should be rechristened the "Benares-on-the-Charles." Just walking through the Square you can hear an impassioned plea for a peculiar form of world peace from a member of the Unification Church, sample being "processed" by Scientology aficionados, and glance...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: A Tour of 'Benares on the Charles' | 5/14/1980 | See Source »

...Harvard 7:06.4 (Bow Howard Rosenfeld, Fugere Lynch, Compbell Rogers, Andreas Fverbruch, Jamie Fargo, Richard Atkinson, David Reavill, stoke Alex Chatfield, cox Dan Simon); 2. Yale 7:12.6; 3. Northeastern 7:15.0; 4. Pennsylvania 7:16.0; 5. Syracuse 7:18.3; 6. Cornell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 35TH ANNUAL E.A.R.C. SPRINT ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

...like an ancient mythical bird, this varsity eight rose from its own ashes to fly once again. And yesterday afternoon, as the sun broke through the overcast skies of Worcester following the varsity's decisive win in the 35th annual EARC Springs. cox Greg Soghikian recognized his eight's similarity to that ancient bird...

Author: By Mark D. Director, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Up From the Ashes in Worcester: A Lightweight 'Phoenix' | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

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