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Harvard is fighting what may be a losing battle against a serious increase of often-fatal Dutch elm disease, in an attempt to preserve the Yard's leafy canopy...
...question about the Cleveland righthander this spring. The prospects did not look good. For ten years Perry had baffled National and American League hitters with the best spitball, or slickest greaseball, in the game. Working his way up from simple saliva to sea moss, baby oil, hair tonic, slippery elm slop, Vaseline and finally vaginal jelly, Perry had loaded up the ball well enough to win 183 games, earn $100,000 a year, and be selected as the best pitcher in the A.L. in 1972. Then last winter, officials decided to bounce the illegal but nevertheless popular pitch by giving...
Four times in the first two pages she uses the word "mystery." With a kind of metaphysical awe she notes that there are 228 muscles in the head of a caterpillar, 6 million leaves on a big elm, 14 billion root hairs on a rye plant. Then she drops her bomb on Eden: Why? "My God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it," she cries. "The question from agnosticism is, Who turned on the lights? The question from faith is, Whatever...
...strange phenomenon occurs in the Elm City come the third week of November. Suddenly sportswriters take a liking to the shift button on their typewriters. If they quote anyone talking about the two teams' upcoming contest, the reference is not to 'the game' but to 'The Game.' And as kickoff-time approaches the sickness grows to epidemic proportions: no longer 'the game' or even 'The Game,' suddenly the confrontation is labeled 'THE GAME...
...elected are: Philip N. Alexander of Dunster House and Kingston, Jamaica; John Arao of Leverett House and Evanston, III.; Jeffrey D. Bernhard of Quincy House and Buffalo, N.Y.; Michael M. Biehl of Adams House and Elm Grove, Wis.; John P. Boyd of Lowell House and Stoneham; Steven C. Bunnell of Kirkland House and Rumson, N.J.; Ira A. Burnim of North House and Melrose; and, Jack F. Conn of South House and CreveCoeur...