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...Haven, the Elis bounced back from five weeks without a win, holding fleet-footed Joe Holland to just 55 yards and crushing Cornell, 42-14 Yale Quarterback Pat O'Brien put his aerial attack aside Saturday, taking three keeper plays in for scores...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Green Keep Pace, Crush Lions, 37-7 | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

Most of the races carry trophies as prizes, and all give medals to the first five places. Finishers in each event are awarded points toward a team cup, the Paul Revere Point Trophy. Harvard returns as the defending overall champion, with a fleet of 30 boats in the regatta. Yale, the 1976 winner, will enter 23 shells...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Head of the Charles Regatta | 10/20/1978 | See Source »

Polillio remains modest about his success so far and, with the injury to equally fleet-footed Wayne Moore, his ever-rising status in the Harvard attack...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Polillio: Comet Among Stars | 10/17/1978 | See Source »

...Dodgers got off to a good start when second baseman Davey Lopes blooped a single into right field on the third pitch of the game. With one out, Reggie Smith punched a long single to right, scoring the fleet-footed Lopes, who had already stolen second...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Yanks Sizzle Past Cold Dodgers, 12-2 | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

Subic Bay, a major liberty port for the U.S. Seventh Fleet, has a permanent base force of 8,000-swollen by as many as 9,000 sailors passing through on shore leave. Much of their contribution to the local economy is made in the honky-tonk town of Olongapo, where the principal commodity for sale is sex. About 15,000 Olongapo residents are registered "bar girls," many of them infected with a penicillin-resistant strain of gonorrhea known as "Viet Nam Rose." According to Navy estimates, American sailors spent $128 million in Olongapo last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Bitter Battle over Bases | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

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