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...Crimson ski team tied St. Lawrence for sixth place yesterday at the Williams Winter Carnival in Williamstown. Ten colleges competed in the first day of events, and defending champion Middlebury ended up on top of the heap with 85 points...
...degrees below zero. In protest, 300 glassy-eyed students angrily burn Adams House, the School of Design, and the office of The Harvard Independent. Luckily, no one is injured when the surprising drop in temperature cracks the epoxy holding the Science Center together, reducing the complex to a heap of stone and glass rubble...
...paper applauded the fact that some of the players risk court action for trying to smuggle in Western luxuries from their foreign travels, a privilege that Soviet athletes had long come to take for granted. "The national team returned home burdened not with a heap of victories," complained Komsomolskaya Pravda, "but with a heap of unprecedented customs violations...
Fisher also said that--although he doubts many Harvard graduates will end up on the bottom of the heap, permanently filing insurance policies under "H"--he expects a "bumping process" to reach right on up the line. Harvard College seniors will face more competition for jobs, and often they will have to settle for less desirable positions...
...Norman Mailer. Thinned down from prepublication fasting, Mailer looked a bit like a quizzical coyote as he listened to a speech about his favorite writer by John Leonard, editor of the New York Times Book Review. Warming to his subject, Leonard variously described Mailer as a "libidinal compost heap," "a cyclotron run amuck," and a writer who wears his books "like a string of grenades." Then he got round to comparing Mailer (favorably) to Dickens, D.H. Lawrence and Don Quixote. The author thanked Leonard for his mellifluous praise but genially observed that, however gratifying, it was all "too little...