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...Seasons go different ways," Hogan said. "Sometimes you peak at the right time, and sometimes you don't, and this year we obviously didn't. Minnesota wasn't Vermont or B.U.--The Gophers were the best we faced; we had to play our best and we didn...
However, the number of actual volunteers on the PBH records has remained approximately the same as last year. The figure has hovered at just below four hundred for the past five years, after a 1967-68 peak of just under 1000 volunteers. But executives point out the faddish nature of much of late 1960's volunteering. "The numbers don't necessarily reflect a greater commitment," says Steve Cooke...
...images. After World War I, art photographers finally began to come to terms with the nature of their medium. Photographers such as Steiglitz and Strand discovered the artistic possibilities of sharp focus and modern subject matter. Their approach was formal, carefully--considered, composed and crafted. This style reached its peak in the 40's with the work of Edward Weston. Weston photographed mainly nudes, still lifes and landscapes, emphasizing the photograph's wide, tonal scale and capacity to render diamond-sharp details...
Since then, in the peak year of 1971 some 7,800 American Jews emigrated, but the rate dropped sharply after the 1973 war to only 3,400 last year. That war also cut into American tourism to Israel?down from 281,000 in 1972 to scarcely over 200,000 last year. Only the rate of those Americans, mostly young, going to work for a time on kibbutzim has increased since the war; the number was about 5,000 last year, but applications appear...
Every Monday during the peak recruiting weeks of January and February, the coaching staff coordinates tactics. "We've got to see how a guard in Texas compares with a guard in California," says Boulac, "and decide which we want." Notre Dame also has to be careful not to offer too many $4,000-a-year scholarships. In a rule adopted last year to cut costs and stop colleges from buying their way into the top ten, the N.C.A.A. has limited the number of football scholarships a school can give to 30 a year...