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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cuts are the feared actions of coaches that bring nerves to the most nerveless athletes. They cause sleepless nights, added worries and psychological strain. They test a player's ability to perform under pressure, the pressure of having to make a team.all athletes know the struggles against being cut. One such athlete is Scott Malkim, an Eliot House sophomore, who has been living on the edge of the blade, avoiding the fall soccer cut by a hair. His thoughts and emotions provide an example of the tension evoked in the battle to make a team. His words speak for many...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Close to the Edge: Hanging Tough Through Cuts | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

...suspension of Ellery follows Cambridge City Manager James L. Sullivan's announcement last month that city police would no longer use the garage to perform towing services in Cambridge...

Author: By Joseph L. Contreras, | Title: State Agency Suspends Ellery Garage | 9/16/1977 | See Source »

Whether Harvard will further expand its role in the Third World remains an open question. Cole contends a "moderate" expansion of HIID's activities overseas would help broaden the base of development activities based here in Cambridge. "We can still perform a more effective research and teaching role with some expansion," Cole says. Since most of the consultants on HIID projects are recruited from outside the University, the institute could expand its role in the Third World without draining major resources from Cambridge. But Cole maintains that HIID is not simply fishing for contracts, and that the institute will...

Author: By Jonathan D. Ratner, | Title: The Whole World in His Hands | 9/16/1977 | See Source »

Like their big brothers in business and government, microcomputers have a central processing unit to do the thinking, an input-output device (typically an electric typewriter connected to a video display screen) for giving instructions and receiving answers, and a memory for storing information. A microcomputer can easily perform such sedentary chores as keeping track of an investment portfolio, maintaining an up-to-date Christmas card list, collating menus or entertaining the kids with a vast Olympiad of electronic games, from TV tennis to Star Trek (destroy the Klingons before they capture the starship Enterprise). Other tasks-reporting on water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Plugging In Everyman | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

...Seldom do the twain meet. Now breeders are starting to say, 'He looks good, but what can he do; what is the breed supposed to do?' They are getting down to the basics, exploring the dog's historical role. Then they not only appear handsome but perform well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Preserving Ancient Skills | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

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