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...Duncan, 63, and Miranda Weston-Smith, 21, have tried a different approach. They have edited and just published The Encyclopaedia of Ignorance (Pergamon Press; $30), a 450-page volume that makes a brave attempt to encompass much of what man does not know. Say the editors: "Compared to the pond of knowledge, our ignorance remains atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Outer Limits | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

...Pond Gap, W.Va., a miner's wife walked into the general store, passed the potbellied, coal-burning stove and went to the back, where she opened a nervous conversation with Proprietor Virgil Huddleston. Finally, she got to the point. Her mother-in-law was coughing up blood and needed to go to the hospital, but the family could not afford to send her. Would Huddleston advance her a loan? He dug $50 out of his pocket. "As long as I've got it," he said, "I'm happy to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: But Life Can Be Cruel | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

...three in the opening half, when Harvard's offensive line treated the Dartmouths with Rodney Dangerfield-like respect. In other words, with none. The holes that opened were immense, and at least on this day, Brown, Sigillito, Ralph Polillio, and Chris Doherty looked like the Four Horsemen of Fresh Pond Parkway...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Dartmouth Big Green Ain't So Mean | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

President Dwight Eisenhower, for whom Roberts provided a man-made fishing pond on the club's par-three course. It was there, near the third tee, that Roberts took his own life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 10, 1977 | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

...conducting an endless discussion. It is virtually impossible to include all the various properties and buildings Harvard owns in Cambridge. The total amount of Harvard-owned property in Cambridge adds up to well over 200 acres, and ranges from everything to a fruit stand on Putnam St. to Blair Pond in the southeast end of Cambridge. Harvard owns housing for its students, employees and Cambridge residents. In fact, one tenant of a Harvard-owned apartment building, when asked about how much he thought Harvard owned in Cambridge, just sighed and answered, "What doesn't Harvard...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: Cambridge Faces Harvard | 9/30/1977 | See Source »

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