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...overall Vegas performance, the team headed to the Lone Star Duals in early January with a mission. And by proving a formidable foe to three schools ranked in the top eight, the Crimson definitely asserted its place among the wrestling elite. Though they fell to Iowa State, Oklahoma and Nebraska (ranked fourth, sixth and eighth, respectively), Harvard aggressively grappled these powerhouses-even forcing Nebraska to win the last bout in order to take the meet...
...personality and her work. Prime Minister Lionel Jospin called Cardinal "an essential personality in the fight for women's rights." DIED. CLIFF HILLEGASS, 83, founder of the yellow-and-black Cliffs Notes series of study guides that saved the posteriors of legions of American high-schoolers; in Lincoln, Nebraska. Hillegass started the business in 1958 with a $4,000 loan; the firm was sold in 1999 to IDG Books Worldwide for more than $14 million. DIED. NICOS SAMPSON, 66, guerrilla leader of the 1974 Cyprus coup that triggered the Turkish invasion that cut the island in two; in Nicosia, Cyprus...
During the 10 weeks Kerrey taught with Capps, Nebraska Senator Edward Zorinsky died, opening up a seat in the U.S. Senate. Kerrey switched back into politics and won the race. Celebrating on election night, he sang a searing Australian ballad of a soldier whose legs were blown off at Gallipoli: "Then a big Turkish shell knocked me ass over head/ And when I awoke in my hospital bed/ I saw what it had done/ And I wished I were dead./ Never knew there were worse things than dying...
...Chapter One: The Beginning 1919: Clifton Keith Hillegass is born in Rising City, Nebraska, not far from Lincoln. His father was a rural mail carrier and his mother raised gladioli...
...Chapter Two: College Days After graduating from Midland Lutheran College, Cliff pursues graduate work in physics and geology at the University of Nebraska. He drops out in 1939 to marry his first wife and begins work at the tiny Nebraska Book Company. Leaves his job briefly for a stint as a meteorologist in the Army Air Corps...