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...Every few weeks we were rewarded with a Red Sox game on television. The bad part about watching NBC, however, was enduring the mouths of Curt Gowdy and Joe Garagiola. Ever since Gowdy began to believe that the Bosox were not going to fold in September, he has reminded the American public on the average of two or three times a broadcast how he spent fifteen years announcing Red Sox games. You couldn't escape from Garagiola on the other hand even during the commercials with everyone yelling "Attaboy, Joe" on the Dodge...

Author: By James W. Reinig, | Title: By Jiminy | 10/10/1975 | See Source »

...board of overseers unanimously voted to leave with almost ten minutes left I shook my head thinking of what they were going to miss. Top 20 football is a business, however, and for the same reasons that IBM doesn't fall off the stock market, Notre Dame did not fold. I left looking forward to November 22, Harvard-Yale The Game...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Rags to Riches | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

...laws. There are many egregious offenders who will not be permitted to come back without serving prison sentences. Others will simply come home, hire lawyers and fight their cases in court, where sentences are generally light or suspended. In many cases, deserters and draft evaders have returned to the fold in their own good time-and on their own terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: The Amnesty Failure | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

...group, published a pamphlet called Introducing Harvard a few years ago that said: "That is what Harvard trains you for: surviving and rising in the bureaucracy of your choice." Even President Pusey, in his Walter Mittys of the Left speech, saw his mission as bringing radical students into the fold, saying: "Bringing students of this persuasion back to reality presents a new kind of challenge to college education...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: What Harvard Means | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

...Used to measure the strength of earthquakes. Because the scale is logarithmic, each higher number represents a tenfold increase in the magnitude of the tremors, and a 30-fold increase in the energy released. Thus a 2-point quake is barely perceptible, a 5 may cause minor damage, a 7 is severe, and an 8 is a violent quake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORECAST: EARTH QUAKE | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

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