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Princeton had the best regular season record; Brown staked its claim by winning the Ivy tournament; but Harvard went farthest in the Easterns and was the only Ivy League team to participate in the national tournament in Colorado Springs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Crimson Tint | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...ambitious resolve, but unlike those of many another 33-year-old, it was carried out. Leaving his new, young wife behind, Catlin set out for the territory beyond the Mississippi. For six years he traveled the farthest reaches of the frontier, where a white man had about equal chances of being offered a peace pipe or getting an arrow through his throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Chronicler of a Dying Race | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

...York has an abundance of taxicabs to take you to the good places. Hélas, the drivers seem mostly to be crazy and they do not know their geography! As for their cars, say GM, they could not be in worse repair if you boarded them in the farthest depths of Turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Le Guide to an Electric City | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

...Bradbury would seem, from his prodigious output, to be the most sedentary of men. He is, in fact, one of the most peripatetic. By bus, boat, train and car, he has thoroughly explored the U.S., Mexico, Ireland and Europe. By means of his imagination, he has penetrated the farthest reaches of the solar system and the deepest, darkest abysses of the human mind. "I've gone a long way," says Bradbury. "I've come even farther...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sci-Fi Sprints | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

...gulf war, Saddam's vehicle to assume the mantle once worn by the Shah, cannot go on for too long. Unless resupplied by the Soviets, the Iraqis do not have the capability to wage a protracted battle, especially if they try to push deeper inland than the farthest penetration-45 miles-they claimed by week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War in the Persian Gulf | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

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