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Sandow, the Super Gnat, weighs only 120 pounds and stands just 5'5" tall. Although he has played in just one varsity game, Harvard's 57-0 defeat of Columbia in 1973, and has not suited up for a game yet this year, Sandow has not missed a football practice once in four years here...

Author: By Robert Lunbeck, | Title: 'Being From East St. Louis, You've Got Badness' | 11/19/1975 | See Source »

What the University and the city must hope for, and the gnat-like neighborhood groups must dread, is that the Kennedys decide on a middle course--one that may involve slipping in a museum in, or near, the archives. And with Pei's plans only in their infancy, it's a course that could very easily be taken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trouble Behind The Bliss | 3/22/1975 | See Source »

...number 12 Geordie Thomson. I'd been fishing all morning with a #14 Black Gnat with nothing happening, but when I switched to the Geordie Thomson all hell broke loose...

Author: By Dwight Cramer, | Title: Dwight on the Town | 4/24/1974 | See Source »

...some milk and eggs and could we go to the store? I offered to take my car, but Kenny said naw, we'd go on the motorcycle. He handed me a Bell crash helmet with a wraparound visor and we went out behind the trailer. "I came within a gnat's ass of bein' a road racer a while back," said Kenny. "But you begin to look at things a little different when you got a wife and kid to support...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: A Midnight Rider and the Flyin' Florida Omelet | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

...which has $67 billion in assets, is the biggest of all corporate elephants; by comparison, MCI, whose principal asset is a $64 million line of bank credit, is scarcely even a gnat. Yet MCI last week bested Ma Bell in a court test that, in the eyes of A T & T officials, makes it a serious competitor. AT&T Chairman John D. deButts is, in his own words, "marching up and down the land" complaining to business audiences about the unfairness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: Gnat v. Elephant | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

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