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...despite the Muppets' success on Sesame Street and their demonstrated appeal to adults as well as children, no U.S. network would give Henson a show of his own. It was a British producer, Lew Grade, who finally offered Henson the financing that enabled him to mount The Muppet Show. The program ran in syndication from 1976 until 1981, when Henson decided to end it lest its quality begin to decline. At its peak it was watched each week by 235 million viewers around the world. Stars from Steve Martin to Rudolf Nureyev appeared as guest hosts, and the show launched...
...against Mount St. Mary's, she took over as Harvard's career scoring leader, surpassing the mark of 1,605 set by Tammy Butler '95. She already held the Harvard career steals record entering the season, and she added the all-time rebounding mark to her belt on February 13 against Cornell...
...Crimson took home the tournament championship, losing just one set in four matches, a 3-1 win over Jersey City State and 3-0 skunks of Queens College, NYU and Mount St. Vincent's. The only reason the Crimson even lost a game was because it started its second stringers in the first match...
After a win over Mount Holyoke and a second loss to UMass, 16-2 in Amherst, Harvard entered Divisionals confident that it was New England's second-best team, but skeptical due to its lackluster showing against Brown and in practice...
...into the Nuclear Club? New Delhi and Islamabad may well ask, after the Big Five today ruled that despite testing atomic weapons, India and Pakistan "do not have the status of nuclear weapons states." Meeting in Geneva, the U.S., Russia, Britain, France and China agreed to mount a coordinated campaign against further escalation in the Indo-Pakistani arms race, but refused to recognize the countries as nuclear states in terms of the 1970 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which reserves that status for the Five. TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell believes it's an untenable position: "The Five are trying...