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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final quarter, defensive pass interference against tight end Chuck Marshall moved the Crimson to the Brown 40. Following an incomplete pass, St. John laced a perfect 30-yd. toss to Horner on a post pattern and the split end slipped over the goal line. A fake extra point failed and Harvard trailed...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Brown Gives Gridders 23-14 Mudbath | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Timilty has taken the anti-White tack, mostly because there's nothing in his record to talk about. Timilty's biggest selling point is his work as chairman of President Carter's National Commission on Neighborhoods. But his performance there, like his work in the state house, was less than stellar. Almost half the commission's 19 members dissented on the final report--and the other half quit or were fired. And Timilty has been stressing the "neighborhood" issue, whatever that means. Said one Commission member: "Joe's notion of leadership was you give everybody everything and then they...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Joe Timilty's Lonely Campaign | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

First, candidates point out that the committee controls all appointments within the system, from top administrators down to driver's administrators. The council can only make noise over City Manager James L. Sullivan's personnel decisions, they say. Then they explain how the school committee makes up its own budget, while control of the city budget rests mainly with Sullivan. Once satisfied that the audience knows they do more than decide what year to teach "Health," candidates can turn to the real issues...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Leiman, | Title: Paranoid But Still Powerful | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...your favorite candidate and mark him down as number one. The second-best person for the job should get your number two, and so on, all the way up until 23. Many people give up after eight or nine names because votes are unlikely to be meaningful after that point. "People do all kinds of crazy things--they mark X's, they cross out names, they write slogans on the ballot," one election official explained recently, adding that any deviation from a legible number ranking invalidates a ballot...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Proportional Representation -- Voting By Number | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...Bruins, the final match was like a recurring nightmare. As in the past three encounters with Harvard, Brown came out aggressively in the first half but grew discouraged after 20 scoreless minutes. At this point the Crimson registered two quick goals and the Bruins folded completely...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Women Booters Capture Ivies | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

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