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...game two Dave Singleton's leadoff homer opened the floodgates for four additional Harvard round-trippers. Larry Brown went the route, fanning nine and yielding only two carned runs...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Opponents On Vacation, Batsmen Romp | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

...Anderson tilt was a showcase for righthander Steve Baloff. Baloff spun a two-hit shutout and struck out ten in his seven innings. All the runs he needed came on Mike Stenhouse's three-run homer...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Opponents On Vacation, Batsmen Romp | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

...planning an equally weighty continuation of that shelf: a 20-volume series entitled, not surprisingly, "Great Books of the 20th Century." Writing to the series' editorial board-including such luminaries as Norman Cousins and Jacques Barzun-Adler asked which modern authors might be worthy of the company of Homer, Galileo and Marx. He added: "I am willing to stick my neck out by nominating the authors and works from which a selection should be made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Great Books (Contd.) | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

...ancients believed that weather changed at the whim of the gods, and Homer's Odyssey contains several references to storms raised against Odysseus by a wrathful Poseidon. Modern-day meteorologists have established that earth's weather stems mainly from the sun. Each day radiation equal to some 17 trillion kilowatts reaches the earth's atmosphere from the sun and warms the planet, particularly around the equatorial regions, where this radiation strikes more directly than it does at the poles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Weather: Prediction and Control | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

...bottom line, simply, is that it's Harvard's turn to win. Because it's B.U. in the Beanpot finals, and who cares about being a homer and sticking your neck out on a limb. For at least a night, it's worth it. Harvard 5, B.U. 3, with an empty net goal by Bill Hozack clinching things once...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Harvard-B.U.: No Love Lost | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

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