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...Fifteen of last year's 26 letter winners were freshmen or sophomores. Last season's kiddie corps is now back with a year's experience, two veterans who took last year off came back this spring to win starting jobs, and coach Bob Scalise has attracted the school's best crop of freshmen in years...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Crimson Laxmen Open at Mass Maritime Today | 3/26/1977 | See Source »

...distinction is hardly significant, but then neither are the details of Billy's life, yet they're here too. A chronology shows him marrying his fifteen-year-old high school sweetheart, going off into the Marines because he "wants to be a bad-ass," flunking out of Emory University, watching his gas station almost blow...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: Good Ole Cult | 3/26/1977 | See Source »

Rather than addressing the problem, the United States has decreased humanitarian aid to third world countries by about 60 per cent in the last fifteen years. As Jimmy Carter said in his radio chat last Sunday afternoon, the United States only devotes three-tenths of one per cent of its GNP to foreign aid. This figure is substantially less than corresponding figures for France, Germany, and England. And although Carter has claimed all along that he has a deep concern for those suffering in other nations, his priorities seem to be similar to Ford's in the area of foreign...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Helping the Hungry Nations | 3/11/1977 | See Source »

Most owls roost together in groups of ten or fifteen, but this particular owl is apparently a loner

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Around The Campus | 3/8/1977 | See Source »

...Swahili, national language of Tanzania, official in Kenya and other eastern African countries, having some older literature written in Arabic script and abundant modern literature in Latin script, and spoke by about fifteen million people...

Author: By Ephraim Issacs, | Title: The Case For Academic Fairness | 2/22/1977 | See Source »

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