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...Crimson drew first blood in the morning battle. Prop Tom Lapinski, capping a long drive down to the Yale end, broke over the goal line for a four-point try. An attempted tow-point conversion failed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Ruggers Edge Harvard, 12-4 | 11/29/1972 | See Source »

...thought, was good for the world, and it worked out that way-for a time. Disraeli was determined to maintain a balance of power by preventing Russian expansion-as much feared in the 19th century as it came to be in the 20th. To do this, he had to prop up the decaying Ottoman Empire, a policy that outraged Liberals who felt that it was a violation of British principles to support a corrupt regime. To stretch a point or two, Disraeli even had a McGovern hectoring him in the person of Gladstone, the Liberal leader who thundered his righteous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Richard Nixon: An American Disraeli? | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

...Crimson escaped with only one injury, a slight brain concussion to prop Tom Lapinski in the second half. Lapinski returned to play in the final minutes of the game, however, and won't miss any future action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Offs Crimson Ruggers, 28-3 Powerful Tiger Backs Control Game | 11/14/1972 | See Source »

Harvard Band Prop Crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1972 Class Marshal Candidates | 10/26/1972 | See Source »

...signal out of a crack in the rocks with a homemade bow crafted from a handy branch and Eva Marie's leopard-skin brassiere. "I'm certainly glad I didn't burn my bra," coos Eva Marie. This sort of sniggering sitcom stuff belongs more prop erly on television, the celluloid burial ground for which Cancel My Reservation is quickly destined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Road to Ruin | 10/9/1972 | See Source »

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