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...this season of snow the fairways of The Country Club, where the Crimson linksters normally cavort in a sunnier clime, look like so many billowing sheets left out to dry. Each day the linksters awake and pine for the white fastness of Brookline to reveal pristine swathes of Merion bluegrass. Each night they gloomily retire...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: The First Swing of Spring | 3/11/1978 | See Source »

...never able to harass the Lions' deliberate, patterned offense sufficiently. "They handle the ball well and we had to adjust to their style of play," McLaughlin said. Cy Booker led the cagers with 12 points, while Brian Banks chipped in 10. Bob Hooft scored 11 points but rode the pine most of the second half. Playmaker Fine, after being tapped for last week's All-ECAC team, failed to score...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: The Party's Over | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...Roosevelt renamed it Shangri-La (after the Himalayan paradise in James Hilton's bestseller of that era) when he chose it for his summer retreat. As F.D.R.'s son Elliott Roosevelt recalled, the camp at that time "looked more like a Marine training camp made up of rough pine cabins, but it suited Father down to the ground?metal bed, bathroom door that refused to shut tight, bare walls ornamented only with some of his favorite cartoons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Camp David: A Palatial Retreat | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

From the various sightings, the satellite appeared to have fallen some 115 miles east of Yellowknife. Numerous small lakes dot the rolling rock and pine country. Such celebrated tourists as Prince Charles and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau have fished for lake trout there in the summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Cosmos 954: An Ugly Death | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...Admissions Office did not replace him. Instead they cancelled the trip altogether because the reservation was located several hundred miles from the nearest airport, and there was some difficulty concerning students renting cars under Harvard's sponsorship. One of the three reservations this trip was to cover, Pine Ridge, is the second largest reservation in the United States...

Author: By Peter R. Melnick, | Title: Minority Recruitment at Harvard: Still a Ways to Go | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

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