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...Fourteen undergraduate women met yesterday with a special visiting committee and said that Radcliffe should take a more active role in solving problems affecting women students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Students Want Radcliffe To Assume More Active Role | 12/7/1978 | See Source »

...though hobbled by a sore leg, splits right as a flanker and draws double coverage. Champi gambles, gives the ball to Crim on a draw play, and the fullback breaks it to the six, where he is brought down by Ron Kell. Harvard calls its second time out. Fourteen seconds remain...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Ten Years Ago | 11/18/1978 | See Source »

...demonstrators from fourteen student groups hoped to "educate the Law School community on the impact of the decisions of the Burger court," Lori Potter, a coordinator of the event, said yesterday. Potter cited the court's decision on the Bakke case as one that will effect "almost everybody...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: Protesters Demonstrate Against Burger | 11/17/1978 | See Source »

...LATE sixties, a novel based on the Korean wartime experiences of its pseudonymous doctor-author, Richard Hooker, had been kicking around Hollywood for several years. Fourteen directors had been offered the property; all turned it down. Director number 15 was Robert Altman, a television refugee with one major picture (That Cold Day in the Park) to his credit. Altman decided to make the film, hired blacklisted writer Ring Lardner, Jr. to do the screenplay, and produced a brilliant black comedy that was a tremendous critical and popular success. M*A*S*H* took the Grand Prize at the 1970 Cannes...

Author: By Andrew T. Karron, | Title: Altman: Hitting the Myth | 10/12/1978 | See Source »

...Fourteen months ago, Walker was given his fourth star and his toughest assignment: commander of NATO's land-based forces in southeastern Europe, with headquarters at Izmir, Turkey. This command used to have 600,000 troops, but the Greeks pulled out their 150,000-man contingent after Turkey invaded Cyprus in 1974. Walker thus found himself in the unenviable role of being an American general leading a Turkish army on Turkish soil at a time when the U.S. Congress was punishing Turkey with an arms embargo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Case of the Fallen Star | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

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