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...sophomores, they won the Ivy League championship. As juniors, when they were heavily favored to repeat on top, they were buried by both Brown and Yale. This season, the same burial occurred again, and the Crimson finished with its worst record in Restic's seven-year tenure...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: There Were Ups and Downs, But Mostly Downs | 11/15/1977 | See Source »

...resulting lack of information can sometimes have important results. Last year's freshmen voted to join the CRR without really knowing its particulars or purpose. The paternal outcry of the more worldly and knowing upperclassmen did not deter the freshmen from their chosen path, and the seven-year boycott died a quiet death...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Class Conflict a la Harvard | 11/4/1977 | See Source »

...crude oil and rejected his plans to tax the business uses of oil and natural gas. The committee also bristled at a White House threat that Carter would use his Executive authority to impose tariffs on imported oil if Congress failed to pass his proposed seven-year $85.7 billion crude oil tax; the committee passed a provision specifically forbidding him from levying such a tariff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Filibuster Ends, but Not The Gas War | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

Arthur Armstrong In 1969 Irish Artist Armstrong ended a losing seven-year struggle with the Dublin tax authorities; it seems that he kept artistically inaccurate records of his brush-and-easel expenses. Now spared the drudgery of bookkeeping, Bachelor Armstrong, 53, ambles through an unhurried life of painting ("There is a limit to the amount you can produce to satisfy yourself) and making the rounds in Dublin. "You can get to know everybody here," says he. "In London, there's too much territory to cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A Little Bit of Haven | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

Penn's strong wishbone running attack broke open a 7-7 half-time deadlock with ten second-half points for its opening victory over Cornell and prodigal coach Bob Blackman, who returned to the Ivies this year after a seven-year stint at Illinois...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Yale, Dartmouth and Penn Take Ivy Grid Openers | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

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