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...companies and the U.S. government has been what Henry A. Kissenger '50 used to like to call "political stability." The price paid by the bulk of Iranian people has been continued mass poverty in the face of petro-dollar plenty and perpetual intimidation by the SAVAK, the Shah's secret police. For Pahlevi's most out-spoken critics it has often meant imprisonment and grotesque torture that has been only too vividly documented by some of those who escaped...
...proved once again that the Harvard man isn't just another pretty face. The four-year yet stroke yelled for the stretch-drive spring earlier than Princeton anticipated. The Tigers panicked and decided to try to match Harvard's sprint, but the gang from Jerseyland didn't have the petro left to catch the smooth-sailing Crimson squad...
Surveying the costs of the welfare state, a businessman confesses: "I'm a little bit scared of the future." Still, Norway's variant of socialism stands a good chance of thriving-if only because of potential benefits of North Sea oil. Like the petro-socialists in Libya, Iraq and Algeria, Norway's Labor Party can count on bankrolling its welfare measures with its oil earnings. This is a route to democratic socialism which few other societies have the luxury of imitating...
...knew the end was near. I sat with a dwindled Watson crowd as Dartmouth scored off a face-off and Petro's leg to help keep you out of the play-offs. And what hurt most of all was that your coolness and confidence that had attracted me were gone. You had learned how to lose...
...change. Harvard lost to Princeton on February 18, 1978 for the first time since February 28, 1967. The icemen had a 4-6 record at Watson Rink and became the first hockey team in history to have Home Ice Disadvantage. Brian Petrovek and his pads were graduated, as Petro donned turtleneck sweaters for games and sat in the press box watching John Hynes and Brian Murphy take his position, not necessarily his place. There was no Billy Hozack on the power play. And there was a fight at the Beanpot...