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...Crimson's swing through Florida marks the end of their preseason in Briggs Cage. Harvard's mammoth indoor sandlot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Rites of Spring: Practice at Harvard, Rindge | 3/27/1975 | See Source »

Fisher's role at the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning is no abdication from weighty governmental issues, however, because more than simply supervising the attempted placement of students in jobs they want, Fisher is witnessing what he is convinced is a cultural adjustment of mammoth significance. With the burgeoning proportion of college graduates in the work force, and the presence in the culture of more and more institutions directed towards the educated, society experiences a "geometric jump" in its numbers of educated masses, he says. The growing pains are tough, Fisher concedes, because college graduates must learn...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Frank Fisher | 3/17/1975 | See Source »

Queenly Beehive. At 8:37 a.m., the propitious moment selected by court astrologers more than a year earlier, the royal priest placed the mammoth jewel-encrusted crown on the King's head and a diamond tiara atop Queen Aishwarya's beehive hairdo. Then came salutes from the King's loyal subjects, starting with three-year-old Prince Deependra decked out in a miniature military uniform. For the afternoon parade-music was provided by regimental bands, including one of Nepalese bagpipers-the royal couple rode on the King's tusker elephant, Prem Prasad, while the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEPAL: Coronation in Katmandu | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

...point being that, unlike other businesses, Steve's is not run on the philosophy that "The customer is always right." It isn't a mammoth bureaucratic operation that bends over backwards to seek out business, keep it and rake in money...

Author: By Jenny Netzer, | Title: The Scoop on Steve's Ice Cream | 2/26/1975 | See Source »

...crusading fortnightly journal last month exposed the derelictions of John Ashcraft, director of the West Virginia department of mines. Ashcraft, the magazine alleged, gentled mammoth coal companies with only token fines for safety violations, while at the same tune violating the law himself by failing to meet the required minimum qualifications for a mine safety inspector. As a result, a committee of the West Virginia state senate will decide this week whether to recommend Ashcraft's impeachment. The aggressive publication that dug out these facts is hardly a national name, though among the miners of Appalachia and labor experts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Miners' Maverick | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

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