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While we slogged through our short jaunt there were scores of other Harvard undergraduates, graduates, tutors and professors who did manage to compete some officially in yesterday's 86th Boston Marathon. And although all were thrilled to cross the finish line, descriptions of the race itself ranged from "horrible" to "outstanding. I can't want to do it again...
...Americans an Easter holiday in the Caribbean is a pleasant way to forget the cares of the world for a few days. Their President is not so lucky. The reasons go well beyond the fact that Ronald Reagan, for image-building purposes, felt obliged to turn his five-day jaunt to Jamaica and Barbados last week into a "working vacation" that featured meetings with leaders of some of the area's island states as well as a bit of swimming in the turquoise waters. Whether in unseasonably cold Washington or under the blazing Caribbean sun, Reagan could not escape...
...rebuilding season during which the team saw a limited schedule. More noteworthy, it did not participate in what had become a Classic hallmark--the spring adventure to foreign lands. Over the past few years. Harvey and his team voyaged to Puerto Rico. Gibraltar and Cuba. This year's jaunt to Northern Europe is the first one which has been student organized...
...themselves off as a band of musicians. They boarded the aircraft carrying grenades and automatic weapons concealed in instrument cases. No sooner had the FASTEN SEAT BELT signs been turned off than the three planes' 235 passengers and 15 crew members found themselves on a harrowing 29-hr, jaunt that touched down at various Latin and Caribbean countries en route to Havana. All hostages were released unharmed. The gunmen were taken into custody by Cuban officials. -By Marguerite Johnson. Reported by James Willwerth/San Salvador
...also clinched a .500 record at Christmas break for the Crimson, which travels to Princeton Saturday night before embarking on the annual holiday jaunt out west. Most importantly, however, it gives Harvard back some of the momentum of the two-game winning streak (Maine, UNH) that preceded the Brown game...