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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever success the Harvard baseball team experienced in the past was many times in spite of the man at the helm. Loyal Park, who coached the Crimson for the decade preceeding Nahigian, was a sound fundamentalist but could never talk straight to a Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New Man, New Attitude | 3/21/1979 | See Source »

...live-aboards, the ketch or cruiser is like a mobile home buoyed on the briny. No small part of the allure of boat living is that, theoretically at least, you don't need to dock anywhere except to take on fuel and supplies. Scanning the sunset at the helm of his schooner, Atlantas, in Los Angeles Harbor, Teacher Ron Remsburg muses: "When you look at that compass, you can say to yourself: I can go any direction in the world that I want to go." Or stay at home, listening to the slapping halyards, creaking hull, bird cries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Boat People, American-Style | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...Yale can remove its inadequate former soccer coach, Bill Killen, we should be able to find somewhere to place Mr. Ford. Harvard owes its players, and itself, a new face at the helm of the men's soccer program. --Scott D. Malkin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ford Controversy | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

...play in the Ivies will improve under this latest innovation. "I was personally against the rule change, but I think it is necessary in order for us to be competitive outside our League schedule," says McLaughlin, who posted an 11-15 mark in his rookie season at the Harvard helm...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Harvard Hoop: A New Look and a Tough Slate | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

Well, I'm not planning on falling into that trap I'm not going to fund anyone who turns the Battle of Helm's Deep into nothing more than a Cowboys and Indians scene, complete with Gunsmoke music and Gandalf as John Wayne leading the rescue. Maybe that's all the book is, essentially, but Bakshi seems to exaggerate that which is formulaic and even trite in the books. Moreover, his animations are wooden and lazy -- groups of figures will stand without moving while a battle rages around them. The synch of the lips and sound falters and only...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Ripping-Off the Ring | 11/22/1978 | See Source »

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