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Football games, no matter what the outcome, are something of a filling station for the Lear Jet engine of Princeton's alumni drive.

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Of Machines and Alumni | 10/27/1979 | See Source »

While Lowrance glooms over gold's fickle ways, he is suddenly surrounded by gold-jacketed runners and other traders clad in bright red, green and purple coats. They talk excitedly about a broker's blunder: the man has made a mistake in filling out a customer's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Some Rough Rides for a Fall | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

You might have trouble filling out the whole of this miniature allegory, but that's undoubtedly Barth in the corner, playing with his toy trains. The great conservative, the practitioner of a lost art, the bearer of the torch--so Barth justifies his extravagances.

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Return To Sender | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

Kristen Linsley, Karla Amble, and Anita Diaz finished fourth, fifth, and sixth respectively, easily filling a gap created by the absence of Paula Newnham, who is still out with a score ankle.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Grab GBC Title | 10/17/1979 | See Source »

Young love is a fanaticism inhabiting a region somewhere between the silly and the metaphysical. Scott Spencer understands the territory well: its shimmering landscapes, its enclosing solipsism, the profound and dippy magic by which children suddenly acquire passion. In Endless Love, the mother of one such adolescent says in rueful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Torch Song | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

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