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...first time in Harvard's history, the women are hitting the ice in their eight game season as a club sport. At the halfway mark, their record stands at 1-3 with the only win coming in the second game against the Nashua Elks, an amateur team from New Hampshire...
...halfway up the curving northwest driveway. On winter nights its 105-ft.-tall crown framed the floodlighted White House portico, its graceful branches seeming to cradle the mansion. In summer it rustled softly and spread soothing shade across the lawn. Old 75's trunk was 8 ft. thick at the base. It was the most solid citizen of the front acres. Teddy Roosevelt's children played around it. Mourners leaned on it when they brought John Kennedy's body back to the White House. The televi sion journalists knew a friend when they saw one: John Chancellor...
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI doesn't seem to take things halfway. If his Last Tango in Paris contained some of the most graphic sex that had ever been offered to general audiences in 1972, 1900 is one of the most concerted efforts ever to put the class struggle on the screen. By the end of the four-hour film, Bertolucci has completely exhausted his audience, as much emotionally as physically...
...business community would be asking him for two Christmas gifts. One is a tax cut to stimulate profits, investment and employment. The other is the appointment of an inflation-fighting conservative to head the Federal Reserve Board, preferably the patriarchal incumbent, Arthur F. Burns. Last week the President went halfway; he promised to call for a tax cut in 1978. But the future of the Fed chairmanship remained a tantalizing question...
...more than halfway through Scott's "fiveyear plan" for making A. & P. solidly profitable, the results are dismal. Last month A. & P. reported that earnings in the quarter ended Aug. 27, the second period of its fiscal year, dropped a sickening 88% below a year earlier, even though sales rose 2.4%. After that news broke, President Gentry resigned. He has been succeeded by David W. Morrow, 46, who once worked with Chairman Scott at Albertson's, a food and drug chain based in Boise, Idaho. Though A. & P. is closemouthed about the profit crash and the executive shift...