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...route from Europe lay round India, to the south), are a rare example of such a vogue in reverse. The very fact that, by the early 17th century, some feudal lord had commissioned a World Map and Four Major Cities of the World (see color), painted on twin eight-fold screens, is significant; his ancestors would not even have been curious, confidently locked as they were in the isolation of Japan. A world map represented as great a jump in thought for Japan as the first photo of the earth from space did to us. The Japanese artist who painted...
...position of strength and influence; in another time and place, perhaps that would have been true. But it was a narrow-based movement then, eliciting only limited support beyond the left-liberal American intelligentsia. What is so frightening is that now, with the base of support broadened ten-fold, we have re-elected a President who declares publicly, "Decision-makers can't be affected by current opinion, by TV barking at you and commentators banging away with the idea that World War III is coming because of the mining of Haiphong. Nor can decisions be affected by the demonstrators outside...
...record revenues of $9.5 billion for 1972. Still, says Control Data's Norris: "We found that IBM marketing pressures that we had challenged lessened considerably" after the suit was filed. Until the Justice Department's antitrust challenge is resolved, IBM may well avoid any attempt to fold, spindle or mutilate the competition...
...budget surplus was not to be long-lived, but it tended to demonstrate that The Crimson was a viable enterprise, not likely to fold up under an economic gale. As the paper rounded the corner into the 1880s, it seemed fairly sure of its place at Harvard...
However, the Crimson did not fold. They did not play sluggishly, or carelessly, and they did not collapse in the third period. They outskated and outshot Cornell in every period. It's true that Harvard did not play an outstanding game. The second defense of Bobby Muse, Dave Hands, and Levy Byrd missed injured Doug Elliott and made a few costly mistakes, and goalie Joe Bertagna let in a junk goal. The power play was not as sharp as usual, capitalizing on only one of nine opportunities (and then only after the game was lost). Cornell penalty killers shut...