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...short years, the Harvard football program has multi-flexed its way from the top of the Ivies smack into the middle of the heap. Ever since that afternoon in the Yale Bowl two years ago when Mike Lynch kicked a 26-yd, wobbly duck for the deciding field goal and the Crimson's first undisputed title ever, the Crimson's motion, the trademark of the multiflex, has either been illegal or backward...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: There Were Ups and Downs, But Mostly Downs | 11/15/1977 | See Source »

...season is over, and the teams with the schizophrenic personalities--Harvard, Brown, Dartmouth and Penn--are back in the pack, while the not-so-schizophrenic Elis stand tall on top of the heap...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Darkness at the End of the Tunnel | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

...have up-to-date vaccination certificates were quarantined; cholera can incubate in the body for as long as five days before symptoms appear. Incoming planes were fumigated as soon as they landed. The health ministry launched a massive campaign to inoculate 13 million Egyptians. Authorities burned every garbage heap they could find in Cairo and Alexandria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: An Ancient Scourge Strikes Again | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...very least sexy, and she has undoubtedly used her sex appeal as a selling point. But her latest album, Simple Dreams, lays to rest once and for all any remaining doubts about her ability as a singer. Ronstadt is at the top of the current, ever-shifting rock heap, and she fully deserves her number-one status. Simple Dreams lacks the knockout power of her two best albums, Prisoner in Disguise and Heart Like a Wheel, yet it displays a more mature talent. The songs are an effective, in not particularly memorable, mix of old rockers, country and new Southern...

Author: By Earnest T. Bass, | Title: Coming of Age, Simply | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

...spent about six years interviewing 250 business managers around the country, probing sometimes as long as six hours at a time to pick out important character traits. What he discovered was that certain personality types are far more successful than others in gravitating to the top of the corporate heap, while the rest are either forced out along the way or drop out on their own, for lack of desire. Three of the identified species--the Craftsman, who succeeds because of his skill in producing a fine product, the Jungle Fighter, whose specialty is high-stakes politicking and backstabbing...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: The Games People Play | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

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