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Four Indian musicians, sitting crosslegged and stocking-footed on an oriental rug in Paine Hall, yesterday presented a program as part of the Quadrangle Spring Arts Festival...

Author: By Julie Wilson, | Title: Indian Musicians, Asian Artists Star At Quad Festival | 5/1/1976 | See Source »

...drawing up theoretical plans for Reza Shah Kabir, and the new contract represents a feeling on the part of the Iranians that Harvard's planners are the best men for the job. And Harvard is resolutely brushing whatever ideological differences it may have with the Iranian regime under the rug...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: RSKU Redux | 5/1/1976 | See Source »

...Listen, just because Yale couldn't beat us if we were a rug and they had a stick is no reason whatsoever to let down. Seems to me that the day and the meet are just right for running fast and jumping high...Let's kick this small dog, in a gentlemanly fashion, dead in the behind...

Author: By Stephen W. Parker, | Title: Embree Sets New Mark | 4/21/1976 | See Source »

...nearly 25 years ago when an elderly, disheveled man wearing an old coat drenched from a rainstorm outside walked in and sat down. Placing his briefcase on the floor, the intruder reached in and drew out his wet, muddy galoshes, and proceeded to drop them on the fine office rug. Before Cabot could say anything, the man, Arthur D. Stillman, reached in his briefcase once more and handed Cabot over $1 million worth of securities...

Author: By Thomas W. Janes, | Title: Learning to Live with the Squeeze | 3/26/1976 | See Source »

...wife Nancy moved from Buffalo four years ago to the northern Maine community of Oxbow (pop. 72). With their friends Buddy and Gmme Swenson, they bought 150 acres of land and set about building two houses for themselves. They remember the fierce black flies in the summer and the rug hung in the doorway to keep out the cold in the fall. They had no electricity TV telephone or running water. The Swensons drilled a well When money ran low, both women picked potatoes even though they were pregnant. The youngest Swenson child was born in the family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americans on the Move | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

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