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...boasts the exact zone defense that Northeastern slowed the Crimson within the first half yesterday, and the Rams will be looking to knock off the number three ranked team in the nation...

Author: By John Beilenson, | Title: Laxwomen Beat Huskies, 13-2, Look to Easterns | 4/30/1981 | See Source »

...Soviet Union regularly protests the shuttle program as a plot of "U.S. elite classes to place weaponry in space." But at the same time, the U.S.S.R. is known to have demonstrated "killer" satellites that can knock other satellites out of the sky. To meet this threat, the U.S. is considering anti-satellite weapons of its own. Eventually these may even include high-powered laser and particle beams that could destroy a hostile satellite or an incoming missile. In 1980, then Secretary of Defense Harold Brown declared the shuttle essential to future U.S. military planning. However true that was a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Battlestar Columbia? | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...Style), Sean Cunningham (Friday the 13th), John Landis (The Blues Brothers)-got started in the business with pictures that cost $100,000 or less. It can be done. Just follow the advice of another ex-scrounger, Martin Scorsese: "You should just start working wherever you can! Get out, knock on every door, sneak into the studio. Drive counts. This is Hollywood." Scorsese might have added that, nowadays, Hollywood is wherever people with drive and dreams get together to make movies. So watch out, L.A. The next star-struck generation may just want to go Pittsburgh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lights! Camera! Pittsburgh! | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...ACSR has very little real power. Corporation response to ACSR recommendations--often formed with the best of intentions--has historically been pitiful. But the ACSR has officially invited all who are interested to knock on its door tonight and make their opinions known. The offer is no more than a morsel, and, if we expect the beliefs of the student body ever to reach the Corporation and have an effect on its policy decisions, a morsel, no matter how tasty, will not do the trick. Nevertheless, experience shows that if the Corporation responds at all on the investment question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Make ACSR Listen | 4/7/1981 | See Source »

...sudden plague of injuries (Jaime Wylie's badly sprained ankle and the shoulder Mike Davis separated against B.C. can be added to the list) could certainly be blamed on missed practice time as well--time lost in getting into the top competitive shape needed to go out and knock heads with teams like Johns Hopkins and Cornell. Evidence last season's injury record, after a full dose of preseason preparation...

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: The Laxmen Labor, Injured and Out of Practice | 4/3/1981 | See Source »

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