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...have conducted a random, although modest, survey of Harvard-Radcliffe students and discovered just one type of person who can tell a story, albeit weak, about Central Square. This type turned 18 before December of 1972--when the military started relying entirely on volunteers to flesh out its ranks--and he had to amble on down to the fringes of Central Square to register for the draft. He remembers City Hall, where the draft cards were issued, as a tabular and turreted brick fortress with rows of arched windows through which he got a sidewise view of neon wriggles...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: The Other Square | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

Admissions is not an exact science and officials say they use recommendations, school reports and interviews to fill out the objective data of test scores, class rank and grades to make a flesh-and-blood picture of a candidate...

Author: By Mercedes A. Laing, | Title: An Exacter Science | 12/6/1975 | See Source »

...Groove Tube, 6:15 and 9:30 p.m., weekend showing at 2:45 p.m.; and Flesh Gordon, 7:45 p.m., weekend showing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge | 12/4/1975 | See Source »

...find no exit wounds on X rays and photos of his back or the rear or left side of his head. A small hole in the rear of Kennedy's skull, they say, is clearly an entrance wound; part of the bone is pushed inward. Discoloration of flesh and the lack of jagged skin edges similarly identify the back wound as one of entrance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: WHO KILLED J.F.K.? JUST ONE ASSASSIN | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

...bladderball game, for example. This is a form of sport in which three or four thousand Yalies lock themselves inside the Old Campus with a huge canvas ball. There appears to be no object to it except to immerse oneself in a surging tide of flesh, heaving violently in one direction after another in pursuit of the ball. The specter of academic pressure seems to preside over this activity, as it does over every activity at Yale. Last year the bladderball was removed to Kingman Brewster's lawn and, while the president of Yale stood on his porch, drink...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: God and Bladderball At Yale | 11/21/1975 | See Source »

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