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Baseball, unlike most modern day sports, has remained fundamentally unchanged in design and spirit since its genesis in the middle of the 19th century. The invention of the game is attributed in folklore to Abner Doubleday. Besides founding the national sport, Gen. Doubleday--after graduating from West Point--was present...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: How Harvard Invented the Tools of Ignorance | 4/24/1979 | See Source »

LAST WEEK, the Board of Governors of the Peabody Museum was forced for want of funds to sell a collection of paintings valued at 1 million, primarily because of the University's short-sighted financial policies.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Tub Leaks | 2/16/1979 | See Source »

Carried further, mannerism turns into jokes. One exponent of the building as sight gag is Chicago Architect Stanley Tigerman. His best-known visual joke is the Daisy House in Porter Beach, Ind. The house is in the shape of a phallus; a flight of white concrete steps, cascading down to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doing Their Own Thing | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

What had gone wrong? Unless contrary evidence is found, it appears that the pilots in both planes failed to see each other, despite the puzzling PSA report about "traffic in sight." Investigators have not dismissed the possibility that the 727 sighted a plane other than the one it struck, although...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Death over San Diego | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

Four years later, the U.S. is still working to normalize relations with Angola. Since that time, the rhetoric of U.S. foreign policy has grown more pro-African, but there has been little real shift in the substance of the policy. The U.S. continues to formulate its policies by reacting -- opposing...

Author: By Jonathan D. Ratner, | Title: Namibia: A Trust Betrayed | 9/27/1978 | See Source »

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