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...They" say you can't get enough Harvard students together to make a half-way respectable demonstration on any issue. "They" are wrong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fooling the Experts | 3/24/1978 | See Source »

...Clark subcommittee recommendations, which are self-consciously moderate and "pragmatic," seem too willing to give the South African minority government another chance to make good, considering its past record. While the Senate may be content to wait to observe the effects of this half-way measure before taking another insufficient step, South African non-whites continue to live each day under the most systematically repressive and racist government on earth...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: The Senate and South Africa | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

Aided by Rogers's big saves, Valicenti and Yeomalakis capitalized on pile-ups in front of the Bowdoin net to put the match out of reach by the half-way mark of the period. For his period-and-a-half work, Rogers had an outstanding 16 saves, and let up but one goal...

Author: By Theodore S. Chandler, | Title: J.V. Hockey Ices Polar Bears; Rogers Stars, Stops 16 Shots | 2/24/1978 | See Source »

Wicks walked in Bing's steady footsteps with yet another in his recent rash of invigorating efforts. Wicks, who saw mucho minutes due to the absence of injured Curtis Rowe and Tom Boswell's fouling out, poured in 16 points and added a decisive three-point play half-way through the O.T. to put the Celtics ahead to stay...

Author: By John Donley and Bill Scheft, S | Title: Pro Sports Roundup: Celts Win; Bruins Zing Blues | 2/2/1978 | See Source »

...this point, the viewer tolerates a certain modicum of fatuousness. But about half-way through the encounter scenes of the two lovers-to-be, one begins to have serious doubts about the movie. Caroline, the girl Elgin falls in love with, is played by Susan Dey--former member of the Partridge Family--who does a decent job, considering she must portray one of those vague people who consistently has trouble figuring out what it is all about...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Love, Tears, and a Loss of Innocence | 11/23/1977 | See Source »

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