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With victory now clearly within its grasp, the Bruin offense made one last-gasp attempt to give the game away. A third down fumble by halfback Mike Sokolowski was grabbed by Harvard's Joe Sciolla, setting the Crimson offense up at the Brown 24 with 1:09 left in the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Devastating Weekend Study in Brown | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

...explain a point is very different from the intellectual's examples. It's much more out of the stuff of lower-class and middle-class working people. For instance, there have been policemen in my class. Their knowledge of politics is unique--it adds to my own grasp of conflicts in urban political life...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: The Extension School Helps Non-Students Catch Up On Things | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

Europe's soft underbelly may not be far from Communism's grasp. As Americans, we should ready ourselves for the possibility of a partial Communist takeover in Europe. We must either bend our idealism in favor of friendly co-existence or more actively support the anti-Communist forces in Southern Europe. Janice L. Morrison Leawood, Kans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum: How to Avoid Courtroom Tilt | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

Whether Holmes ever lived outside Watson's cranium is doubtful, especially as this bizarre tale of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution overtaxes the reader's suspension of disbelief. Apparently Watson lay in the fell grasp of senility when he delivered this blithering monologue to a secretary in an old-age home, and Nicholas Meyer distilled...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: The Adventure of the Addled Amanuensis | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

...magnitude of this procedure is difficult to grasp: assuming that each student has an average of four confidential documents in his or her file, over 25,000 inquiries will have to be made to clear the undergraduate records alone...

Author: By Richard J. Meislin, | Title: The New Bureaucracy for Access to Files Brings On More Paperwork Than Revelations | 11/8/1974 | See Source »

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