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Students have been crowded "eyeball-to-eyeball" during several of this year's mixers and fist-fights have resulted, Watson said. More than 2,000 students--and non-students -- attended the Leverett House mixer causing an almost chaotic situation, he added...

Author: By Jeffrey D. Blum, | Title: Watson Says Open Mixers Are Banned | 1/16/1968 | See Source »

...other sources, but there is more about the nature of palmistry that may prove interesting. The lines in the palm, particularly the four main ones (life, fate, head, and heart) are actually formed before birth. The fetus awaits birth with closed hands, and the act of making a fist creates creases or lines in the hand. I have looked at subjects as young as six weeks of age and found their fortunes quite easy to read, although some squinting is required. The lines deepen and change somewhat during one's lifetime; new lines appear as well, but the basic lines...

Author: By Philip V. Rickert, | Title: Confessions of a Palmist | 1/10/1968 | See Source »

...past seven years, last place in the National Hockey League has be longed to the Boston Bruins, a team of such pluckless pandas that they could not have thrown a scare into Goldi locks. This season, the Bruins have turned into terrors. They lead the league in fist flinging, stick swinging, penalties and scoring. Last week they won their third game in a row, humiliating the Chicago Black Hawks 7-2, to tie the De fending Champion Black Hawks for the N.H.L.'s East Division lead. "We are the victims of circumstances," cracks Coach Harry Sinden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Bad Bruins | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

Their common concern, as Atlanta Appliance Dealer J. M. Harper puts it, is that the consumer may have merely "opened his fist temporarily, and after Christmas will close it again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailing: Opening the Closed Fist | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

...through four years of doubt and cynicism, he shook his fist at mortality-the defiance sometimes gorgeously expressed, at others trapped by fuzzy rhetoric. In the last entry, Thomas wrapped together the best and the worst that he had seen and felt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Worm Beneath the Nail | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

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