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This game was a defensive contest. Both goalies played strong games. Princeton goaltender Fred Cherne made 20 saves and gave the Crimson very little daylight to shoot...

Author: By Peter Mcloughlin, | Title: Hockey: Princeton Falls, Beanpot Tonight | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...gruff but avuncular authority figure, Vorster gained votes from both South Africans who want him to safeguard the country against change and those who want him to bring about change safely. In recent weeks there has been a series of incidents-a rash of daylight robberies and attacks in white suburban areas -that has had an unsettling effect on the national psyche. A bomb exploded at rush hour in Johannesburg's leading shopping complex, injuring 19 people. Two weeks ago, a National Party candidate for Parliament, Economist Robert Smit, and his wife Jeanne-Cora, were murdered in their home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: An Avalanche for Vorster | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

Five years ago, when Boston Policeman John O'Brien was rounding the corner of Brighton's Commonwealth Avenue and Washington Street at 10 m.p.h. in broad daylight, he lost control of his police car and struck an elderly woman named Bridget Neville. Six months in the hospital and $32,000 in medical bills later, Neville, now 83, won a belated jury award of $103,253. Fair enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Suing City Hall | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

Small Cache. Three weeks ago, Nguyen, his family and six other people made an audacious getaway from Danang in broad daylight. Pretending to start out on a lazy, late-afternoon pleasure excursion, they headed for the Philippines. They took with them a small cache of weapons accumulated during the war; the refugees intended to fight it out, if necessary, with Communist patrols that capture eight out of every ten escape boats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Refugees: Seeking Safe Harbor | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

...past several months Columbia University, represented by its President, has been negotiating with Henry Kissinger '50 the possibility of his appointment to a chair in the Department of Political Science. Since the appointment has moved recently from the realm of secrecy and rumor to the relative daylight (the light of openness at Columbia is pretty dim), opposition in the university community has taken firm root and grown...

Author: By David Johns and Suzanne Silverman, S | Title: Keeping Kissinger Out of Columbia's Classrooms | 5/10/1977 | See Source »

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