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Blankets are strung across one end of the room to keep precious Nitaku balls from being lost under piles of junk and eaten by God-knows-what. The lighting is so poor that Harvard's team could only gain a competitive advantage if a tournament was held in the dark...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: King Pong Wins Upset Over 60 Boylston Brass | 4/14/1978 | See Source »

The most melodramatic is Haldeman's account of what he claims "may have been the most dangerous of all the confrontations this nation has ever faced." According to Haldeman, U.S. intelligence learned in 1969 that the Russians had moved "nuclear-armed divisions" along the Ussuri River within two miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Much Ado About Haldeman | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

Ed says that the University is just beginning to provide aid to him for studying and getting around. He used to bring a tape recorder to class, but that didn't even last all the way through freshman year, since he tended to just fall asleep during lecture. Playing the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ed Bordley Grapples with Being Blind, Being Black and Being at Harvard | 1/11/1978 | See Source »

Norman Bigelow is, by most people's standards, probably insane. Normal humans have enough trouble without being imprisoned in plastic bags with deadly snakes, or chained before piles of blazing gunpowder. But then, Norman Bigelow is not a normal human: he is a man totally dedicated to his art.

Author: By Brian L. Zimbler, | Title: Fit to be Tied | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

In his books, Gorey piles hackneyed literary convention upon hackneyed literary convention to reach a gruesome black-humor conclusion. Stylized drawings of upper crust twerps develop into tiny portraitures of weirdly haunted people. But this time the script does not fit the Gorey formula. Although everyone looks straight out of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Necking | 10/1/1977 | See Source »

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