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NEWS BOARD: Competing for the News Board is the fastest, most efficient way to get an aerial view of the bright and dark sides of this wonderland which we call Harvard. It really helps put things into perspective. The News Board Comp also happens to develop skill and facility at...
Ronald Reagan, who played a commander of the submarine Starfish in Hellcats of the Navy (1957), had never been aboard an aircraft carrier. So he was visibly delighted at the strafing runs, submarine hunts and other shows of Navy air prowess put on for him during a visit to the...
With only ten days to get ready for the second-season opener, hitters may have a slight edge over pitchers, who must be in top physical condition to perform effectively. But the batters are not exactly ready to pound on the poor pitchers. Says Detroit Tigers Leftfielder Steve Kemp: "Hitting...
Yet it may have turned out that way. In the intervening decade, there has been a riotous growth of deliberately clumsy, punkish figurative painting in America: paintings that ignore decorum or precision in the interest of a cunningly rude, expressionist-based diction. Quite clearly, Guston is godfather to this manner...
A & A Tool Co., a precision machining shop with 23 employees and a twelve-month backlog of customer orders in the aircraft and defense industries, is typical of a crisis that is quietly brewing on the shop floors of the nation's plants and factories. From the tiny machine...