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Coach Cooney Weiland's three spanking new lines passed with mid-season precision and hustled with homecoming enthusiasm in a 9-2 bombing of Bowdoin at Watson Rink last night. The Harvard hockey team's superiority in play was as convincing as the final score; and the game should give...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hockey Team Wallops Bowdoin 9-2 | 12/2/1965 | See Source »

The adventures began when Conrad (real name: Teodor Joózef Konrad Korzeniowski), the orphaned son of Polish intellectuals, defied his guardian and went to sea at the age of 16. Nostromo, for instance, describes with photographic precision a revolution he witnessed in Central America while serving as an apprentice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: It Was All True | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

Less excusable was the orchestra's refusal to play a true pianissimo, depriving Strauss's tragic chord of most of its mystery. And often inflections betrayed caution and over-literalness, such as in the excessively elongated eighths of the horn-calls. Fortunately Don Juan is a rondo, which means that...

Author: By Jeffrey B. Cobb, | Title: Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra | 11/15/1965 | See Source »

The True Europeans. Alsace's strongest push has come not from the French but from foreign companies that want to locate in the heart of the world's second-biggest market. More than a third of Alsace's new plants are either wholly or partially owned by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Business: Battle Line--1965 | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

In the second quarter, Hugh Polk led Harvard's precision forward line in setting up high scorer Charlie Njoku. Njoku sped three grass-cutters by the Princeton goalie, but twice an alert fullback was there to save the score and once Blodget couldn't connect with the open goal.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soccer Team Takes Tigers With Ease | 11/8/1965 | See Source »

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