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...does take somewhat of a visionary to imagine the IAB overflowing at the portals with frenzied fans but McLaughlin believes the enthusiasm of his team will rub off on the student body. "It starts with our attitude," he says, "then its up to the students. We're not going to win every night but we'll play 100 per cent. Harvard wants to win just as bad as Princeton. We have to prove to other people that the students are supporting us. If you have the students supporting you in your own place anything can happen...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: McLaughlin Debuts Revamped Cagers | 11/29/1977 | See Source »

...throw. Said he: "There's a great deal of difference knowing your guys are better than the other guys. These Rams give a passer confidence as well as time." As for the Rams, they seemed to feel that Joe's swaggering self-confidence was something that might rub off on them, like his aftershave lotion. Said Linebacker Isiah Robertson, who as one of the few bachelors in the club has become Namath's closest teammate: "He knows he's a winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rough Start for Freeway Joe | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

...view, Nixon had every right to unleash his plumbers against Daniel Ellsberg. Typically, Lasky dwells at length on the well-publicized assassination attempts against Castro while Kennedy was President, but he notes only in a phrase that the CIA's deal with two Mafia figures to rub out Castro was struck under Dwight Eisenhower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Old Defense: They All Did It | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

...aluminum sheeting, drawn by teams of giggling girls. Chauvinistic? Perhaps, but the girls didn't mind. Nor did they balk at a slave auction, in which the prettiest sold for up to $50 in aid of a book fund. Successful bidders got a coed for the day to rub their backs, feed them grapes at a Roman banquet that night-and do whatever else that might pass by the watchful chaperones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pueri et Puellae Certantes | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

Travel with me now, down a little lower on the back of your Bursars card, yes, the sacroiliac region--where the signature is. Start rubbing. Rub hard!!! Harder!!! That's it... You see it? What's the opposite of "firmament," in the biblical sense? You got it--VOID. All over where your signature used to be. VOIDVOIDVOIDVOIDVOIDVOID etc. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Everybody should rub their signatures off their Bursars cards, and see how long it takes for anybody to notice. A couple of years, I bet. And by then you'll almost be out of Law School...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Bursarmania | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

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