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There were some bright spots in the basically dismal Harvard performance. The young and the old supplied the Crimson with two All-Ivy stars, as senior captain Jim Keefe copped the fourth slot and freshman Stein Rafto finished 21st...

Author: By Kurt J. Holland, | Title: Midshipmen Take Heps Championship | 11/9/1974 | See Source »

...represents the first game that Radcliffe has not lost this fall. The stickwomen had entered the contest with a dismal 0-8 record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Field Hockey Gains Deadlock, Stops Losing Streak at Eight | 11/8/1974 | See Source »

...fledgling league is reeling. Jacksonville, like Detroit, has gone out of business. The New York franchise has moved to Charlotte, N.C., leaving the league without a team in the nation's biggest TV market. The Houston Texans have shifted to Shreveport, La. Attendance at some games is dismal: 750 recently turned out at Philadelphia's 100,000-seat J.F.K. Stadium on a rainy night to see the Bell play, and fan support league-wide has fallen sharply below expectations. Reports of overdue paychecks are rampant; members of the Florida Blazers have gone six weeks without salary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The W.F.L. Blowout | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

...Radcliffe tennis squad which had hoped for the team trophy in the 37-college New England Women's tournament over the weekend turned in a dismal performance, losing the top three positions to Yale, Trinity and Brandeis, at New Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale, Trinity, Brandeis Edge 'Cliffe | 10/29/1974 | See Source »

...today many public men must sympathize with Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost, who hears "On all sides, from innumerable tongues/ A dismal universal hiss, the sound/ Of public scorn." It is a period in which reputations seem extraordinarily vulnerable, in which everyone's bank of prestige faces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Universal Hisses | 10/28/1974 | See Source »

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