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...Heps are traditionally a bad meet for Harvard, coming as they do smack in the middle of reading period, and, to add more excuses, the 85-degree heat and punishing track surface didn't help matters. However, the thinclads did turn in some fine performances,including several personal bests, to sweeten the return trip back to Cambridge, where the world of the deadline takes precedence over the world of the finish line...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Tracksters Lose Heps Meet Despite Fine Personal Efforts | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

...other Europeans, Carter's erratic moves smack of domestic American politics. The French specifically feel that it is more than coincidental that Carter decided to get tough with Iran and the allies on the eve of this week's Pennsylvania presidential primary. Their own domestic politics, however, also play a role in shaping the allies' response to Washington; Chancellor Schmidt must stand for election next fall, and he is being criticized by Franz Josef Strauss, his rival, for being too soft on the Soviets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Storm over the Alliance | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

...tenth novel Author Thomas Berger claims squatter's rights to the plot of the beleaguered household. Earl Keese, middle-aged and overweight, lives with his wife Enid smack at the end of a cul-de-sac somewhere in exurbia. Their plans for a normal Friday night have been made without reckoning on Harry and Ramona, a younger couple newly ensconced in the only other house on the block. Ramona appears first, while Enid is in the kitchen seeing to supper, and makes some lewd advances toward Earl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A House Is Not a Home | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

...thumps "into the black" in a rousing encore of "My My." As the album ends, however, the name on Young's lips is not Johnny Rotton, but Bruce Berry, a man whose only claim to fame was picking up after Crazy Horse on the road and overdosing on smack. Young brings the audience full circle by ending with Berry's tragic story, "Tonight's the Night...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Neil Young, Unatarnished | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

Three-meter diving: 1. Schramm (H) 283.3; 2. Mule (H) 260.30; 3. Mike Smack...

Author: By John S. Bruce, | Title: Lundberg and Crimson Fleet Sink Naval Academy, 72-41 | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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