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Another freshman, Cynthia Stanton, served an effective sidearm-overhead bullet throughout her number two match to prevail 3-0 over Puddie Hauge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women's Varsity Squash Team Dispenses With Dartmouth, 6-1 | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...room darkened as the TV lights were switched off. People turned to chatting and eating. There were plates of hors d'oeuvres--mostly pork and shrimp--and drinks. Overhead were four painted lantern-covered light fixtures. On one wall was a mural of ethnic Chinese in native costume. Chairman Mao stood in the middle, fleshy and pink-faced in a gray collarless suit. Significantly, he towered over everyone else in the mural...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: A New China For the New Year | 1/5/1979 | See Source »

...calculating the costs of alternative meals plans, we have assumed that the fixed costs of the Food Services--labor, administrative, and overhead--should be borne equally by all resident students. The variable prices will reflect only the differences in the non-fixed, food costs. (This appears to be the practice at every other school we have examined.) Thus the savings that might result to those who purchase a 14-meal plan would come solely from a reduction in the cost of the food that they eat. At the same time, this would mean that board contracts would rise for those...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feeling the Student Pulse | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

Hundreds of tanks and armored cars thundered through the streets of Tehran last week, as U.S.-made Phantom jets screamed through the skies overhead. In a powerful show of force, the Iranian armed forces rolled out their heaviest armament and their flashiest regiments for the annual armed forces day parade. Traditionally, the festivities are an occasion for full-dress reviews and elegant tea parties for officers and their wives. This time, however, it was a day for showing strength and loyalty to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Two weeks ago, in a desperate effort to counter rising opposition to his autocratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: The Military Is in Charge | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...before the UFO outbreaks. Thus, the budworm moths, having feasted on the trees and flying in well-defined swarms that may have measured miles across, could have been on nocturnal migrations when the people of Roosevelt began seeing those strange, dancing lights. Indeed, as the moths hovered and blinked overhead, while trying to escape atmospheric electric fields on certain stormy nights, they might well have resembled what the scientists call a great "free-floating discoth?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pesky UFO's | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

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