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Neither team could assert control for most of the third quarter, but the little things let on that Harvard would not blow this chance for an upset. Little things like six-ft. five-in. Mark Harris, who boxed out Outlaw all night, having the guts to draw an offensive foul...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Hoopsters Get Revenge, Shock Columbia | 2/19/1980 | See Source »

"Jon had a lot of trouble with the workouts--I expected he'd get his fill pretty quickly and then drop out of the program," Bernal said recently. "He showed a lot of guts when he continued to take the punishment week after week. He is the type of athlete...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Quiet Swimmer Earns Respect | 2/14/1980 | See Source »

To editorial writers on newspapers, "Afghanistanism" has long had a special insider's meaning that is suddenly out of date. It meant ducking hot issues. Robert U. Brown, editor of the trade weekly Editor and Publisher, remembers when Tulsa Editor Jenkin Lloyd Jones first used it in a 1948...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Turning Off the News Spigot | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

It violated all Jimmy Carter's instincts ?his political instinct for the charitable gesture, his personal instinct for compassion?to break his own campaign promise and cut off the golden flow of U.S. grain to the Soviet Union. But at the same time he was filled with rage and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grain Becomes a Weapon | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

Lansing has the guts for the notoriously rugged industry. After graduating from Northwestern University, she went to Los Angeles to teach in a Watts high school just after the bloody riots of 1965. Later she became a model for Max Factor and Alberto-Culver, then landed movie roles in Loving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Leading Lady | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

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