Word: crowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...breaks this season prevented Harvard from going to the NCAA finals and kept the Crimson from possessing the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference crown...
...national polls. That was before exams--after exams was a different story. The squad lost only three, but the ones it chose to drop were the important ones like the Beanpot opener against B.U., the Cornell rematch in Ithaca which cost a share of the Ivy crown, and the ECAC quarterfinals...
...version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's luminous classic The Great Gatsby. If selling can make it so, Paramount intends for the movie to be bigger than either of its predecessors. "After Love Story and The Godfather," says Paramount President Frank Yablans, "I think of Gatsby as the Triple Crown...
...audience anticipation to have already earned an unheard-of $18.6 million in advance bookings-nearly three times its $6.4 million cost. Since the industry rule of thumb is that a movie must bring in 2½ times its cost to break even, Gatsby, if not yet quite a Triple Crown winner, is already in the black. And since the film will open almost simultaneously in 370 theaters round the country, Yablans can say that even if the film itself flops, "by the time the word gets out, we will have played to so many" that a good profit is secure...
Tregaskis achieves a myopic happy ending. When Kamehameha died, he left his dynasty seemingly secure in the hands of a crown prince with the Lady Kaahumanu as regent. Even a short-ranged epilogue would have shown the dynasty and the island's culture disintegrating under the white man's burden of greed and commerce. ∎Laurence I. Barrett