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Official attendance records only exist for the past 25 years of Harvard football. And during those 25 years, last weekend's crowd was, by far, the smallest single gathering to watch the Crimson gridders...
Since 1962, the previous smallest home crowds recorded were 6000 (vs. Cornell in 1978), 6500 (vs. William & Mary in 1985), 7534 (vs. Columbia earlier this year) and 8000 (vs. Cornell in 1982 and Holy Cross...
...long string of Administration defeats in Congress? No. First, in terms of sheer bulk, there is not much that President Reagan wants from Congress except to protect the gains achieved largely in the first year, which is a much easier task to accomplish than policy initiation. He has the smallest domestic legislative agenda of any President in the post-war era, and whatever rhetoric he has committed to social issues like prayer in the schools and the prohibition of abortions, they have never been serious interests of the Administration. Second, the advent of a Democratic majority in the Senate...
However, The Boston Globe reported in early October that the lottery has an unusually large payroll and that 98 percent of its employees are Democrats. Massachusetts also pays a higher percentage of its receipts to winners than any of the others, while returning the smallest percentage to the state. The lottery has an advertising budget of $10.4 million, many of whose advertisements feature Crane...
Contaminated liquids that had been passed through porcelain filters designed to purify laboratory solutions and capable of blocking the passage of the smallest known bacteria were still able to infect both plants and test animals. However, careful microscopic scrutiny of the filtered liquids failed to reveal the "filterable agents" that caused the diseases. Also, unlike bacteria, these agents could apparently not be grown in culture dishes, where scientists hoped they might form colonies large enough to be seen with the naked eye. The source of such diseases as mumps, smallpox, yellow fever, rabies and dengue remained a mystery...