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Wilson and his roommates--Franklin Codel '86 Thomas J. Gill '86 John B Kessler '86 and Wayne Snodgrass '86--planned to remain in their rooms last night despite the slight damage and broken window...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett and Thomas J. Meyer, S | Title: Fire Breaks Out in Canaday Suite | 4/27/1983 | See Source »

...recent Miami dinner in his honor, Pepper spoke eloquently about growing older. "The aging process is so slow, so gradual, that all you notice is a slight diminishing of some of your faculties," he said solemnly. What the elderly want is "to be thought of as just other people. They need love. They need compassion." He concedes that attitudes toward the aging are improving and predicts that this will get much better when, as demographers predict, the elderly constitute an even larger share of the nation's population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Champion of The Elderly | 4/25/1983 | See Source »

Harvard never trailed in the brief contest. The squad stormed to an early 8-4 edge thanks to solid defense by Twite, Nadkarni and Ross, who left Stillman Hospital where he had been bedridden with a throat infection an hour before game time. A slight Crimson lapse gave rise to the only comeback Princeton would muster the whole afternoon, and the Tigers battled to tie the game...

Author: By Mohammed Kashani-sabet, | Title: Spikers Fail in Eastern Finals Bid, Top Princeton But Bow to Pitt, 3-0 | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...team will row at Dartmouth next Saturday on another sheltered, narrow course. But Radcliffe has a slight edge as the Charles has been thawed longer than the river at Dartmouth...

Author: By Maria C. Barbuto, | Title: Women's Crew | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...Brent Scowcroft, who was National Security Adviser to President Gerald Ford, is expected to recommend this week that production and deployment of the MX proceed. But Congressmen briefed on the commission's report predicted a tough fight with no assurance that the President will win. The only slight relief the White House could find in the reaction to the MX was a decision by the nation's Roman Catholic bishops to revise a pastoral letter on the morality of nuclear weapons, dropping a specific objection to the missile and softening their implicit criticism of Administration policy. Meanwhile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing for the Future | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

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