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Settling to a modest cadence of 34 and working long, smooth strokes, the varsity lights steamed to a 10.5-sec. victory. As Cominsky put it, "Navy just forgot to weigh anchor, I guess...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Harvard Lights Torpedo Midshipmen; Return Trip Sabotaged by Weather | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

Former baseball captain Tom Joyce '77 umped the bases during the first inning in his street clothes. The game was a make-up, and someone apparently forgot to tell the umps to show...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Crimson Nine Stops Tufts, 9-7 | 4/25/1979 | See Source »

...meal supposedly came with bread and butter, except that the waiter forgot the butter with one of the rolls, and the melted butter accompanying the other was cleverly packaged in a piece of golden tinfoil, making it a greasy chore to unwrap. Don't however, fill up on dry bread; you'll want to save at least a little room for dessert, just so you can order things out of the spinning Frididaire...

Author: By William E. Mckibben and Nell Scovell, S | Title: Nice Try | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

...demonstrates the combination of design flaws, technical mishaps, and human error that can cause a catastrcphic reactor accident. According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the reactor's design was ineffective in containing radioactive water; safety and monitoring equipment failed to perform properly when called upon; plant operators apparently forgot to turn on important safety valves deactivated two weeks before the accident and twice turned off the reactor's emergency cooling system prematurely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Moratorium | 4/7/1979 | See Source »

...Soviet Union (for some unexplained reason) sends massed troops into Western Europe. This sudden development--the United States intelligence community evidently knew nothing about it--mushrooms into "a prolonged war with extensive casualties." It seems that some of our representatives--who never speak in terms of the Vietnam debacle--forgot that the Department of Defense analysts who prepared these reports are the same ones hwo put us "waist deep in the Big Muddy...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Uncle John Wants You | 4/7/1979 | See Source »

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