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Brademas who is also a Harvard Overseer, said that he is "not unhappy" with Harvard's move to co-educational housing. "I think the College is now a looser place, and I mean that in the best sense of the word," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class of '49 Elects Brademas As Chief Graduation Marshal | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

...lines as made for each other. They stand to capture as much as $500 million a year in additional revenue by offering single-ticket service to passengers who live in cities served by Allegheny and fly to Europe or the Caribbean. Since the tie-up is so far much looser than a merger, Civil Aeronautics Board approval has not been required...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIRLINES: Allegheny's Ascent | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

Harvard played its best hockey in the first half of the second period. The team came out looking a lot looser and began to forecheck better. The play of Jim Thomas and the fourth line of Harry Reynolds, Leigh Hogan and Steve Dagdigian picked up the Crimson pace...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Big Red Icemen Smash Crimson, 9-4; Cornell Becomes ECAC Frontrunner | 2/20/1973 | See Source »

...only an executive order, a message to Congress and some press briefings. The shunning of theatrics was appropriate: it reflected a decision by Nixon and his closest advisers that the elaborate controls of Phase II had done their job and that the time had come to move to a looser system. Nixon wanted to act before the controls caused serious distortions in the economy and became widely unpopular, or before the nation became overdependent on them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHASE III: Some Freedom for Good Behavior | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

...road McGovern divides his time furiously between straight politicking, interviews, rebuilding the fractured Democratic Party, and meetings with potential financial backers. Nixon, straight and stiff, shielded from critics and hecklers, launches into his stereotyped appeals that suggest personal discipline, patriotism and work. McGovern, the underdog, is looser and improvisational. Both men talk and move in different worlds. Nixon's is the White House and continuity-McGovern's is change and challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Travels with Nixon and McGovern | 10/9/1972 | See Source »

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