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...Crimson were operating at full strength, the gridders would surely rate as a big favorite for a rout. But the quarterback who took the squad to three straight victories, Brian Buckley, is sitting in Stillman Infirmary recovering from knee surgery and, offensively, Harvard has to start again...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: They Remember Last Year | 10/11/1980 | See Source »

...Harvard water polo team split two weekend games in a tournament at MIT, suffering a 15-5 rout at the hands of Fordham on Friday night and then returning to crush Hamilton College, 18-3, on Saturday, to move the team record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aquamen Fall to Rams, Dunk Hamilton | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...University's strongest legal bulwark was swept away last weekend. The battle to repeal Harvard's zoning exemption was by no means a rout; traditionally, churches and schools have been excused not only from taxes but from zoning as well, allowed to expand, build and demolish where they please. Cambridge, pointing to maps showing the city with more than 50 per cent of its land institutionally-owned, won the right to limit institutional conversion of property two years ago. That privilege came with only one string--Harvard was not to be included. The men who wrote the state's constitution...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: On Shaky Ground | 7/11/1980 | See Source »

...Carter carried out his threatened veto, the House did not even debate it. It immediately voted to override the President's veto by an embarrassing 335 to 34. From Republican Strategist Robert E. Bauman of Maryland came a victorious yell: "Yahoo!" Next day the Senate completed the Carter rout, voting against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Yahoo! | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

...Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford), some shiny medals to hang on their key chains. Darth Vader (David Prowse) had sneaked out through the back hatch, however, and as The Empire opens, he is sending the forces of the evil Empire to rout the rebels from their hideout on the ice planet Hoth. Giant walking tanks blast the rebel fortress, and Solo, Leia, Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew) and See Threepio (Anthony Daniels) barely manage to escape in the Millennium Falcon. That uncertain vessel refuses, however, to leap into hyperspace, and in order to evade pursuing Empire fighters, Solo runs through a perilous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Empire Strikes Back! | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

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