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...While Dartmouth's eight man line bottled up the Crimson running game, Stoekel set a Harvard record for completions, connecting on 20 of 37 passes for 230 yards. On Harvard's first touchdown drive, Stoekel either passed or ran himself on every play. Stoekel received some help from the goat of the Holy Cross game, Denis Sullivan, who attoned for his dropped passes in the opener by setting up one touchdown and scoring the second on a spectacular catch. Sullivan dropped a bomb on the Dartmouth five yard line in the final seconds, however, and the Big Green Indians broke...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: The Restic Style: Paradise Lost After Priming on Classic Comics | 6/15/1972 | See Source »

Physicians in ancient times attempted to treat chronic headaches with remedies that owed more to folklore than pharmacopoeia. Some believed in trepanning, or opening the skull, to let out the attacking demons. Others prescribed elixirs of cow's brain and goat dung. American Indians used beaver testes, a sounder idea than it seems. The preparation has since been deter mined to contain a salicylate similar to regular aspirin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Aid for Aching Heads | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

...always welcome here if she wants to come, of course." "Here" is a farmhouse on twelve acres in Wales, where Michael, having abandoned the $78,000 mansion that his mother gave him, now lives in a commune with Wife Beth, Baby Leyla, six friends, an old goat and a mongrel dog named Wally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 22, 1972 | 5/22/1972 | See Source »

...publications were questioned. As Professor J.J. Pollitt told The New York Times, "Mr. Segal does other things besides teach classicle literature." Too bad the "other things" had to be so successful. Lucky for Harvard professor and playwright William Alfred he wasn't teaching at Yale when Hogan's Goat became a smash...

Author: By Christopher H. Foreman, | Title: Erich Segal: Does He Have A Choice? | 5/9/1972 | See Source »

...level to those who are already inclined toward it. Still, the proceedings are colorfully photographed and skillfully staged, and even Sir William, the puppet who reads scores and carps about all the cuts, seems to approve. Sir William is both a critic and an aging billy goat. Only a soprano could think of that kind of casting. · Robert T.Jones

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Who's Afraid of Joan? | 4/24/1972 | See Source »

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