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Two hours later, in the distance medley relay, anchorman Sheehan took the baton from Hugh Cole and began his mile leg 20 yards behind Harris. He gradually chased down the midshipman, moving into striking position with two laps to go.

Author: By Ted Ullyot, | Title: Thinclads Place 5th | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

Miller also took advantage of Harvard's resources in a way not specifically organized by Byerly Hall. All the participants in the program were given extended meal tickets, as well as special passes so that they could use Harvard's facilities for the three days they were here. "In the...

Author: By Timothy L. Feng, | Title: Wining and Dining the Class of '90 | 2/21/1986 | See Source »

The standard of style in this dining car is punishingly high. Just inside the entrance, the incarnadine exclamation of a Poiret dress laps a female figure like ripples on a lakeshore. Next to it, a dress from the House of Cybes, all shifting shades of blue with cascades of twinkling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: An Elegant Legacy Comes Alive | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

By placing us in their laps, Kurosawa invites us to contemplate this fact: every action we take has its effect on people we cannot see from our normal positions as groundlings. But in lifting us to these heights, he has, miraculously, not distanced our emotions. Somehow, each figure in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Lesson of the Master Ran | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

The payoff from the SSC should be even greater. As it is now conceived, the accelerator would generate energies of 40 trillion electron volts, in contrast to the 640 billion electron volts produced by CERN's SPPS accelerator. More impressive still, it would produce collisions 20 times as powerful as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Colossus of Colliders | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

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