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...afternoon when everything--the calls, the good bounces, the bad bounces--went the Crimson's way, the only threat seemed to loom above. But the weather held, permitting Harvard to cruise to the triumph...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Kelley's Bat and Doyle's Arm Push Crimson Past UMass, 9-3 | 5/2/1980 | See Source »

While the crew will not have much time to savor the win, it can bask in the knowledge that both an undefeated record and a victory at the Sprints loom as a firm possibility...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Oarswomen Ply Past Cornell, Princeton | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

...region just southeast of Harrisburg, the Pennsylvania capital, looks no different than it did a year ago. The four huge cooling towers that mark the location of Metropolitan Edison's Three Mile Island nuclear plant still loom 372 ft. above the surface of the Susquehanna and catch the eye of every motorist topping the hill at Swatara and heading south on Route 283. The fields surrounding the neat farmhouses on either side of the road are as brown as they always are in March and covered with a stubble that suggests a two-day growth of beard. Middletown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Legacy off Three Mile Island | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

...additional 10% over 1979 levels. Thus, if European banks, which last year lent about 85% of all Third World borrowing, were to be equally forthcoming this year, Third World borrowers would probably be able to squeak through. In short, the feared large-scale loan defaults do not loom as likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Hesitant Recession | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...SIGNS OF IMMINENT TROUBLE for the current front-runner loom elsewhere. Carter campaigners are less than adept at poor-mouthing--reducing expectations so the results look good. Immediately after Iowa, political wisdom had it that Kennedy would be out of it if he didn't win both Maine and New Hampshire. yet his competitive defeat in the Maine caucus ended up as a moral victory, and now Carter is in the historically unenviable position of heading the pack into New Hampshire. Lyndon Johnson needed a big win here in 1968, Ed Muskie in 1972; Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern refused...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Danger in Paradise | 2/20/1980 | See Source »

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