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Which, when you get down to it, is not too different from the way the world looks on the evening news. Only there it is the government that appears a maze of fraud and deceit, its machine a mystery run by mad men. Watergate has given even greater cause to conspiracy theory; it wrecked public trust in the powerful, spotlighted sin among the elect. But not, for many, brightly enough. Nixon could be neither caught nor convicted. And a lesson was that nothing in the government is what it says or appears to be. Now nobody believes that the Energy...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Screaming Yellow Zombies | 1/25/1974 | See Source »

Saundra Graham, a vocal representative of the Riverside community, breezed to a surprisingly strong third place finish, though her newly formed Grass Roots Organization failed to carry any other candidates through the maze. Even John Brode '52, whose highly publicized campaign was expected to make inroads this year, won a meager 261 first place votes...

Author: By Andrew P. Corty, | Title: ACSR NAM ROTC CHUL AP&L | 11/10/1973 | See Source »

...COULDN'T resist a recent offer to take a guided tour of Harvard's central kitchen, located somewhere beneath Eliot and Kirkland Houses. Following Paul DuFour, assistant director of the kitchen, down a dizzying spiral staircase, we arrived somewhat disoriented in a maze of underground tunnels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Hand That Feeds You | 11/9/1973 | See Source »

...pinball machine (an early sixties Gottlieb model called Olympics), and I'm becoming an addict. The thwack of cowhide against a Louisville Slugger just couldn't seem to compete with the clack of the free game as the shiny silver ball thanks and dings its way about a maze of gaudy bumpers and bizarre pictures...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Gamesmanship | 10/17/1973 | See Source »

Pinball has been entrapping its victims for longer than you would think. The ancestor of the modern machine is the bagatelle board, a little known game that consisted of a flat board on which one shot a ball with a cue stick or a bat into a maze of holes and bumpers...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Gamesmanship | 10/17/1973 | See Source »

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