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...most of the players agreed that the course played easy yesterday. Yellin said, "The conditions were nearly ideal. It was a little chilly in the morning, though." A little chilly is an understatement. The tournament had to be delayed 15 minutes while the players waited for the frost to melt off the greens...

Author: By Ellen A. Cooper, | Title: Harvard Golfers Take GBC; Vik, Yellin, McConnell Sweep | 4/23/1975 | See Source »

...however, warn that reducing the northward flow of the Pechora's relatively warm fresh-river water could reduce the temperature of the Arctic Ocean and cause the ice to expand. Or the Arctic Ocean could become saltier, resulting in a lower freezing point and causing the ice to melt. In either case, the river-reversal scheme has the potential to cause major climatological repercussions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Saving the Caspian | 3/17/1975 | See Source »

...percentage of sub-standard units of housing in Chicago when he directed the regional office of HUD in the midwest from 1967 to 1970. Fisher speaks of the end of racial injustice, the development of Colombia, and equality between rich and poor as social ideals that would melt his flinty eyes. "Learning to struggle for unobtainable things, without being cynical, that kind of frame of mind is associated with working in the public concern," he says. Fisher the civil servant is satisfied after work when he has "changed the chance of something getting done from a chance...

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

Some of the techniques for ending arguments are familiar to marriage counselors, for instance, making a list of your husband's best qualities and reading them off to him with enough embellishment to make him melt. But there are limits to profitable deceit. When one wife said her Miami Dolphin husband complained at being asked to open all the food jars, Morgan replied sensibly: If his ego is that strong, only hand him the jars you really can't open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Total Fascination | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

...father drops off to sleep in a chair, even though the music from she radio is at least loud enough to stifle out the leaguing sounds of the mill's machines, which make conversation below a scream impossible, and the sensation of the blast furnace's heat, which would melt human flesh were it not for specially made suits that the workers facing the ordeal-wear...

Author: By Jim Kaplan, | Title: A World Which Is Lost | 2/15/1975 | See Source »

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