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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ewing should meet Jack Tessman, a physics professor at Massachusetts' Tufts University. To win a local television contest, the latter calculated the number of snowflakes that fell on Boston during February's monster storm. He multiplied the average snowfall depth (27 in.) by the area of Boston (43 sq. mi.), then divided the result by the volume of the average snowflake (1/10,000 cu. in.). Answer: 50 quadrillion (5 X 10 16) snowflakes. His prize: a Tessman family portrait-in snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Numbers Game | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...came out of the lackadaisical first period ahead, 2-1, on scores by Jack O'Callahan and Fidler. Tallies by Bruins Rich Scully and Rich Hall put Brown on top, 3-2, in the second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.C. Tops Providence, 4-2, in ECACs | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

Athletic director Jack Reardon has thus far done a capable job in dealing with the various factions of Harvard's athletic community. But Reardon's job does not leave him time to accurately discern the diversity of student opinion on athletics at Harvard. Reardon should heed the events at Penn and move beyond the boundaries of his position to establish an innovative system...

Author: By Mark D. Director and Jonathan J. Ledecky, S | Title: Learning From Quakers | 3/8/1978 | See Source »

From the beginning, investigators have focused most of their suspicions on Jack Matlick. In the seven years after Frank Brach's death, the muscular onetime deliveryman practically became lord of the manor. He directed workmen around the estate and took care of business for "the missus." He knew every detail of her life, even that she stored a lock of her hair in an ivory box in her bedroom. Says John Demand, a former detective who participated in the investigation: "I had the strange feeling that Matlick had taken over her entire personality." He even used her glasses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Case of the Missing Widow | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...think that Saturday night's 4-3 hockey loss to Yale best exemplified a season in which "Lady Luck" and "The Breaks" didn't pal around with the Crimson for more than a couple of games against Brown--well, my friend, you've got the heart of Jack O'Callahan...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Yale Ruins Icemen's Finale | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

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