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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Radcliffe crew managed fourths in the elite eights contest and the collegiate division, and a fifth in the senior eights race, reaffirming their position as one of the country's top boats. In the senior eights, the race began before the Radcliffe shell was ready, costing the disappointed crew valuable time, but an official protest was denied...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Summer Roundup: The Beat Went on ...Slowly | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

...Radcliffe crew managed fourths in the elite eights contest and the collegiate division, and a fifth in the senior eights race, reaffirming their position as one of the country's top boats. In the senior eights, the race began before the Radcliffe shell was ready, costing the disappointed crew valuable time, but an official protest was denied...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Summer Roundup: The Beat Went on ...Slowly | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...granddaddy of rowing competitions, the Henley regatta on the Thames River in England, the Eliot House crew took part and didn't win the Challenge Cup.Instead, the U.S. Olympic shell--coached by Harry Parker, who else?--triumphed over the New Zealand Olympic squad in the final. In the lightweight division, Harvard's Eastern sprints champion boat fell in the semifinals to Witwatersrand of South Africa...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Summer Roundup: The Beat Went on ...Slowly | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...Brett has been on a batting tear that has lifted the Royals to the best record in baseball (78 games won, 44 losses) and a formidable 15½-game lead over the rest of the American League's Western Division. After the All-Star break in early July, shell-shocked pitchers watched him go on a 30-game hitting streak, hit safely in 39 of 41 games and compile a phenomenal .467 average for the period. He swings for singles, not for the fences, but in just 87 games has 91 runs batted in. With candor as refreshing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Romping Toward the Recordbooks | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

Down the street from those hospitals on Huntington Ave and behind the Med School, you'll find a huge building with a smokestack that rises so high in the sky they've put little red lights on it to warn the airplanes away. Below the smokestack is the massive shell of a building that is partially vacant inside. They call it the Medical Area Total Energy Plant--a fancy name for a concept so simple--and it was Harvard's answer to the energy crisis but now it's a crisis...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: The Business of Harvard | 8/15/1980 | See Source »

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