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Winter conditions had also dictated moving up the tee markers to shorten the course. ("You could have thrown it around," Arnold remarked.) But the layout is also wide open, which allowed the wind to wreak havoc on the dimpled spheroid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Linksters Defeat Amherst and Fall to Jumbos On Stowe's Bare Greens and Windy Fairways | 4/8/1980 | See Source »

...part of the state. Up North folks were trying to decide whether to pack away mufflers and mittens after spring-in-December readings of 16° C (60° F). The most startling weather occurred in California, where downpours of almost biblical proportions caused floods, mud slides and untold havoc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: That Crazy Winter Weather! | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

...literal-minded and selfish union shop steward in I'm All Right, Jack (1960). It also the source of hilarity in that small masterpiece, The Party, in which Sellers plays a beturbanned Indian, somehow-invited to a grand affair, and wandering through it, friendless and almost silent, but wreaking havoc wherever he turns. Finally, this impermeability is the mark of his great Inspector Clouseau. In countless scenes such as the one from A Shot in the Dark when Clouseau stumbled through a roomful of guests in evening dress, out through an open French window and sailed through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Sellers Strikes Again | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

...have yet to meet a New Englander (except possibly for children and skiers) who was hoping for snow. Granted, it can be a lovely sight initially, but within hours it is a dirty mess, causing havoc and inconvenience on all sides. If there were a rallying cry in New England in the winter, it would be: "Give us anything, but don't give us snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 11, 1980 | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

Harvard to work with the city on plans for the site. "I hope there is discussion with the city planning department, the Neighborhood 10 Association, and the businessmen of Harvard Square, so that they will have some sense of which options would create the least havoc," Wylie said...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Harvard Pays $4 Million For Possible Housing Site | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

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