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...being, but he is only fitfully successful. Information is not insight. Meyers probes the past lives of Taylor and Harold, but not their hearts and souls or the roots of their perplexing friendship. Taylor is a hard-nosed district attorney with a rightist bias who revels in his animal prowess with girls in singles bars. Harold is a do-good veteran of the '60s scene with its liberal pantomimes and drug dabbling. He sought God in a physics equation and found solace in a loving wife and child. His poetic affirmation of that love affectingly shields him from...
When Rubin entered the game in the top of the fifth, Harvard led, 8-5, but wasn't in control of the game. The freshman displayed the pitching prowess that has earned her four wins in four games...
Anne Wilson, in similar fashion, walloped the ball at the B.U. second baseman, who demonstrated her juggling prowess while Mary MacKinnon headed home to tie the score. To top off her act, the hapless infielder threw the ball recklessly toward first Boyer beat the ball home and Wilson reached third...
Although the Harvard wrestling squad recaptured the Richard G. Waite Trophy yesterday afternoon by solidly defeating the Columbia Lions, 25-11, few can deny that the real test of Harvard's wrestling prowess this season will be decided this afternoon as the Crimson take on the well-balanced--and Ivy-undefeated--Big Red of Cornell...
...have obscured another issue. Many universities have demonstrated through past recruitment practices that they place greater value on athletic prowess than academic prowess. Special dormitories, high paying summer jobs and full scholarships are available at some universities which provide few extra incentives for intellectual achievement--either for students or faculty. In more than one instance athletic directors and coaches have received contracts which pay ten times the salary of the chairman of the Chemistry department...