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...thing appears certain in the Ivies at this juncture, it is that Penn and Columbia will wind up near the bottom of the heap. The Lions edged the Quakers, 12-7, in an uninspired matchup. Penn recorded only a seven-yard touchdown by fullback Jim Mullowney in becoming the first college football team to play 1000 games...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Quarterbacks Need Not Apply to Yale | 10/9/1979 | See Source »

...often, however, the new arrivals join the jobless masses. Unemployment is officially listed at 19%; unofficial estimates put it as high as half the work force. With no other prospects, tens of thousands of Mexicans today wrest a living from the junk heap. In Mexico City, occupants of $250,000 houses in posh suburbs like Bosques de las Lomas daily witness scenes that evoke images from Dante's Inferno. Beneath a perpetual mushroom cloud of pollution rising from a huge garbage dump called Santa Fe, 1,000 pepenadores (those who pick things up) sift through a pile of rubble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's Macho Mood | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...team this year is trying to maintain its position near the top of the college sailing heap. They placed second out of seven at the President's Trophy meet hosted and won by B.U. The next day they snatched third place amid a field of nine at the Captain's Cup behind host Tufts and the B.U. squad...

Author: By David R. Merner, | Title: They're Makin' Waves in the Charles | 9/28/1979 | See Source »

...detail called Campus Shock, which leaves you with what Daniel Webster called that "miserable interrogatory". "What is all this worth?" Well, not a whole lot. Lansing Lamont '52 has written a book which will be noteworthy, if at all, only in the quickness of its declension to the remainder heap over at Barnes & Noble, or its ability to heat a small room at Fahrenheit...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Foreign Correspondent | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...apart of its own accord. Lopez is consistent only in his insulting and pretentious tone, strange for one so attached to mother Harvard. Beyond that, the chapters ramble without direction, and often fail adequately to cover their topics. The section on the undergraduate college, for example, is a messy heap of old famous grads, stories about buildings, and nasty quotations from anonymous sources who hate Harvard...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: The Harvard Mistake | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

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