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...UCLA's Brian Goodell and Harvard's Bobby Hackett added another chapter to their longstanding rivalry. As in most of their 500 freestyle duels, Goodell pulled away at the 300-yd, mark to touch in an NCAA record time of 4:16.43. Hackett notched second in 4:19.41. UCLA wracked up the meet's second-highest point total in a single event, scoring 35 points (Cal scored 40 points in the 200 breast two days later). In the other record-shattering event, the Golden Bears astonished the Cleveland crowd in perhaps the meet's most outstanding performance...

Author: By Lorren R. Elkins, | Title: Cal Kept its 1979 Promise | 3/20/1980 | See Source »

...Hawes said "the higher the faculty salary level, the more capable the college is academically." Harvard professors, with a mean salary of $27,200, are the second-highest paid while professors at the University of Alaska at Fairbank have the highest median salary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Guide Places Harvard First In Prestige | 10/3/1978 | See Source »

...second-highest ranking lama in the world, and the head of the Kagyu order of Tibetan Buddhists spread the word to nearly 100 people at the Divinity School Tuesday night, but the appearance of Gwalya Karmapa was overshadowed by the more worldly doings of politicos like Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell earlier and the week and film director Alan J. Pakula and porn star Harry Reems later...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Holy Men and Carter Politicos | 12/11/1976 | See Source »

Gwalya Karmapa, the second-highest ranking living lama, is spending three months in the United States teaching the beliefs of his Buddhist order, Dharmadhatu. He came at the invitation of Harvey Cox, Thomas Professor of Divinity...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Buddhist Holiness Comes to Harvard | 12/8/1976 | See Source »

...Corporate profits jumped to an annual rate of $134.1 billion before taxes in the third quarter. That was up 32.5% from the first-quarter low of $101.2 billion, and the second-highest July-September rate on record, exceeded only by $ 157 billion in the third quarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUTLOOK: Pushing Ahead | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

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