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...February 1978. The only good memory to come out of the IAB: Harvard beats Penn by six in basketball. Fifteen hundred people collectively go bananas...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: The Best and Worst of Soldiers Field | 1/26/1979 | See Source »

Says Vanderbilt's Heard: "Fifteen years ago we did not have a lawyer on the staff. Now we have three full-time attorneys and a heavy outside legal bill." Notre Dame's president, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, adds: "Every time the Federal Government comes up with a bright idea for a new regulation it helps run our costs up through the ceiling." Hesburgh, a former chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, joins many of his peers in criticizing the federal push toward minority faculty hiring: "There are so few that we end up bidding against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Private Colleges Cry Help! | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

Richards' single draws on two sources: Chuck Berry and Jimmy Cliff. The A side, "Run, Rudolph, Run," an old Johnny Marks-Marvin Brodie song once recorded by Berry, sounds exactly like "Roll Over Beethoven." Richards taught Harrison the lead to that one, and he's had fifteen years to brush it up. The result, predictably, is wonderful. Richards used to reject solo offers, saying the music would just come out like the Stones minus Mick. Maybe so, but who cares? Based on this cut and a handful of earlier efforts, we can only view Richards' recently publicized willingness to form...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Two From Mick and Keef | 1/11/1979 | See Source »

...necessary to include a brief reminder to him and any others who believe the Engelhard issue is less than clear cut. Charles Engelhard parlayed an inheritance of twenty million dollars into a quarter of a billion fortune through his chairmanship of Rand Mines which controlled an estimated fifteen per cent of the South African gold mining industry during...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yes On 1 | 12/12/1978 | See Source »

Santas come from different backgrounds. Many of the Volunteers of America sidewalk Santas are ex-alcoholics in the Volunteers rehabilitation program, and the Kris Kringling is part of their therapy. Several sidewalk Santas are city workers who see an enjoyable way to pick up an extra ten or fifteen dollars for their own Christmases. Many retirees don the red suit and beard; as one, an ex-Ringling Brothers property man, said, "Sometimes you don't know what to do with yourself, that's why I'm doing this...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Which One Is Real? | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

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