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The B.U.-Harvard match-up is potentially interesting, as the Terriers nosed out the Crimson for the eighth and final regional playoff spot last year. Still, an air of optimism pervaded the Harvard camp last week. "I think we're going to go after it," Ford said, "and barring injuries...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: The Gang's All Back | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

Compared with the AWACS deal, what one Israeli wanted and got last week from the U.S. was a snap: 120 alligators. Alligators? Well, their relatives the crocodiles flourish elsewhere in the Middle East, but not in Israel. Guy Ben-Moshe, who is developing a tourist attraction near the southern Golan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gator-Aid: Israel Wants Alligators | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

The aquarium's orchestrated splendors include plenty to justify the quote from the late anthropologist Loren Eisely that is lettered on a plaque at the start of the exhibits: "If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water." Suspended majestically over the central space is a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Symphony on Pier 3 | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

These frightening deficiencies are the result of a decade of neglect, following the winding down of the debilitating U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. Increases in military spending fell below the rate of inflation from 1969 through '77, and nosed upward in real terms only slightly thereafter. This erosion of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arming for the '80s | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

Watson had been in Moscow for three months when Soviet troops moved into Afghanistan. In response, in January 1980, Carter summoned Watson back to the United States, a move officially called "a return for consultations," but publicly described by White House officials as "a diplomatic act of retaliation." In similar...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Thomas Watson: A Capitalist for Disarmament | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

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