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...Only the frigid weather conditions and numerous saves by Wellesley goalie Lo Dunkle kept the score from getting completely out of hand, as the Harvard women dominated Wellesley on defense, in their passing attack, and in their ability to clear the ball...

Author: By Keith Salkowski, | Title: Women's Lacrosse Team Trounces Wellesley, 14-2 | 4/20/1978 | See Source »

...Empain to remain inside an unlit camping tent. He spent his lonely hours making the few mental notes that he could-two dogs barking, a child crying upstairs, some cracks in a plaster wall he could see. Heavy chains were padlocked around his neck, and the temperature was kept frigid. At mealtime one of the gang would alert the prisoner of his approach by coughing; Empain would then have to draw a hood over his head and cough to indicate that he was wearing it. His food came from tin cans, which the kidnapers tossed into the backyard when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Empain's Ordeal | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

...pothole time again, and after a frigid season of record snows, the nation's potholes appear to be of record size and quantity. The House has already voted to spend $250 million to fill them, and Joseph Ewing, research director of the Transportation Road Information Program in Washington, estimates the grand total of potholes to be filled at 116.4 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Numbers Game | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...Department of Buildings and Grounds (B&G) installed a thermometer in the Mather House dining room in response to complaints by the Mather House Council about snow and frigid temperatures in the dining room, Christine Mattson, assistant to the master, said yesterday...

Author: By Jerome L. Rappaport, | Title: B&G Tests Mather's Cold Dining Hall | 2/25/1978 | See Source »

...doesn't take much directorial skill to make a hospital seem scary; in fact, that's sort of redundant--hospitals are scary, full of white, sterile halls and nurses with frigid smiles. You don't even have to bring the audience into an operating room and show scalpels slicing up bodies, brains, exposed kidneys and other assorted organs. After a while the normally squeamish fellow will cry "Gross me out!" and sit with his hand close to his face, ready to clap it over his eyes when the next bloody image appears. He may even delude himself into thinking that...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Organs Aweigh | 2/22/1978 | See Source »

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