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...Harvard men's cross-country team, bouncing back from its dismal defeat last weekend in the Heps, earned a trip to the NCAA championships with a second-place finish behind Providence College in the New England Regional qualifier Saturday morning at Franklin Park...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: Harriers Qualify for NCAA Title Run | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

CORNELL at COLUMBIA--These are the games of which dismal percentages are made. CORNELL 5, COLUMBIA 4 (Joe Holland homer in the ninth...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Crystal Ball Out of Hock | 11/10/1978 | See Source »

...weather was dismal in Tenerife that day, with low-scudding clouds and fog sharply reducing visibility. From the western end of the strip, shrouded from the view of both the control tower and the KLM crew, Pan Am Captain Victor Grubbs was nosing his 747 through the mist toward the Dutch plane. Twice Grubbs radioed the tower, on a frequency shared by KLM, that he was still on the runway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Flashback | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...last of the undefeated Ivy elevents fell and pre-season favorite Yale continued its dismal slide Saturday, once again juggling the standings as the Ivy League football season crossed the halfway mark...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Ivy Roundup: Brown on top | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...situation is no better with the line's 4,500 aging locomotives. Largely as a result of frequent breakdowns and long delays, the on-time arrival of shipments has fallen from 75% in 1976 to 65%-a dismal performance that angers shippers and causes them to switch to trucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rough Ride for Conrail | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

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