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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elected by the biology concentrators each February. At last night's meeting, a motion to guarantee one committee seat for Cliffies initially met some opposition. "Radcliffe doesn't exist. We're all Harvard Men now," one Cliffie said. Another girl stopped smoking her corn-cobpipe long enough to nod her agreement but the motion carried anyway...

Author: By Mark W. Oberle, | Title: Bio Department Chooses Students For Curriculum Studies Committee | 2/27/1969 | See Source »

...Russia's Shakespeare does not travel well. Chekhov and Tolstoy are read and loved elsewhere. But most Western readers, confronted by examples of Pushkin's genius, can only nod politely-or, in the case of the worst translations, nod...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Cloak of Genius | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...from fourth to first in fifty yards to lead teammate John Gillis across the line in 1:12.0, a scant 1 1/2 seconds off the University record. Royce Shaw and Jon Enscoe uncorcked a 58-second final quarter to finish one-two in the mile with Shaw getting the nod in a photo finish. Both runners clocked impressive times of 4:11.2. Colburn, Gillis, Shaw, and Enscoe all doubled in the two-mile relay, coasting to a half-lap victory over North-eastern...

Author: By Richard T. Howe, | Title: Cindermen Trample Northeastern; Benka Smashes Shot Put Record | 1/15/1969 | See Source »

Trim and lithe, her rich brown hair flowing over her shoulders, America's only working queen strides the hilly lanes of her capital, Gangtok. As she passes by, the Sikkimese smile, nod and stop to chat, all formality forgotten. Hope Cooke, the shy Sarah Lawrence student married five years to the King of Sikkim, finds herself very much at home in the tiny Himalayan country. "The mountains," she says, "give me such a secure feeling. I don't feel vulnerable here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sikkim: A Queen Revisited | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

Head Coach Bill McCurdy credited John Heyburn with running "a good, solid race," and expressed regret that he had not given the powerful junior a chance to perform in the Heptagonal or IC4A meets. Heyburn, the eighth man on a team limited to seven entries, got the nod yesterday when captain Doug Hardin and Royce Shaw were sidelined by injuries. He responded by finishing fourth man for Harvard, his highest of the season, and 128th overall...

Author: By Richard T. Howe, | Title: Track Team Places Tenth In Nationals | 11/26/1968 | See Source »

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