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...Alpha Epsilon, Phi Delta Alpha, Sigma Nu, Kappa Kappa Epsilon...they all seemed the same by midnight when the frats overflowed into the street, making one big party, an orgy of clashing bands rowdy frat guys and tipsy visitors. Somehow that Ivy League aura had vanished. This was a mammoth beer blast to rival any Big Ten post-game show. And that was after a losing effort on the gridiron...

Author: By Mike A. Calabrese and J.h. Yeager, S | Title: Harvard Havoc Reigns in Hanover | 10/19/1976 | See Source »

...million stadium was consequently built in tandem with a mammoth harness racing circuit; its primary function at this juncture in its history is to pay off the substantial debt which the state must foot almost exclusively--oh, yes, the Giants pay no property taxes in Jersey...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: GIANTS STADIUM | 10/12/1976 | See Source »

...will argue that only someone who has not been in Washington for most of his adult life?as Ford has?can provide the new ideas and fresh vision demanded by the times. Carter also plans to go this week to Chicago, where Mayor Richard Daley is whumping up a mammoth torchlight parade to spark a drive aimed at capturing Illinois and its 26 electoral votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ELECTION: CAMPAIGN KICKOFF | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

Brucker, 47, and Watson, 45, are cavers of the first rank. For nearly two decades they belly-crawled toward what they call "the Everest of world spelology," a presumed connection between Kentucky's vast Flint Ridge cave system and neighboring Mammoth Cave. The possibility of such a connection must have occurred to Floyd Collins, the solitary caver who discovered Great Crystal Cave under Flint Ridge in 1917 and who died in nearby Sand Cave in 1925, after being trapped there for 15 days. Collins' grisly death stirred the nation's curiosity, and for years tourists in Crystal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: IROISLECXE | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

...wiry woman named Pat Crowther. Large, lordly people are handicapped as cavers, of course, and flyweight readers will follow Crowther's muddy tracks with tears of appreciation in their eyes. When she and her skinny companions popped like corks through the Tight Spot and moved on into Mammoth Cave, the provable length of the great limestone entrails became 144.4 miles. The authors, still not satisfied, think that in all some 300 miles of passages exist. !ROISLECXE John Skow

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: IROISLECXE | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

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