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Farrish collected his third consecutive assist with six minutes left in the period. After blocking a shot at their own blue line, Harvard raced down the ice. The netminder was glassy-eyed by this point, and Mike McDonald slid a rebound by him as he writhed in the crease...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: J.V. Icemen Crush Mass Bay C.C. | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

Fleeing to Europe, Grimes meets a Faustian figure (but a Faust with charm) named Fabian, who knows every banker, concierge and con man from Rome to Gstaad. He teaches Grimes, the back slid Protestant moralist, how to increase and enjoy his money. But just as Graham Greene knew, Shaw is aware that the piper must always be paid, that his heroes must eventually return home to separate fates. Although they used to worship at entirely different literary shrines (Hemingway on the one hand, Evelyn Waugh on the other), Shaw and Greene are bonded in contemporary let ters by their ability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Homeward Bound | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

...what the future might hold for himself or the world, but he left no doubt that in his mind China, for all its problems, was the center of the world. The vast differences in the social systems of the U.S. and China came up now and then, but this slid by almost unnoticed because of the unusual coincidence of the two countries' other interests around the globe. Some of the Americans were startled at how closely Mao's idea of the state of the world fitted with theirs. In spite of that, they came away wondering if America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: A Good Visit with Chairman Mao | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

...case, please get back to me soon if you want me to do anything. If we procrastinate much longer, we'll find we've slid from a Kennedy Library to a Roosevelt Towers, and I shudder to think what would happen to property values then...

Author: By Fred Hiatt, | Title: Wastebasket Journalism | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

Twice, Gilligan set up Neil LaBatte at the point, once with Harvard a man shy, and on both occasions, the sophomore defenseman sent the puck goalward. Finally, with the Crimson on the power play, freshman Mike Mastrullo insultingly added Brown's eighth score as he slid a slap shot along the ice past Petrovek and killed a few worms in the process. A late goal by Horton was responsible for the final score...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: ...While Brown Sends Icemen Reeling | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

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