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...only eventful match in the double competition came at number one, where Andy Chaikovsky teamed with Lundy to smash Meyer and Fife...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Racquetmen Ace Quakers, 9-0 | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

...your shorts, go out in the freezing rain and pound heads and smash bodies together for two hours before lunch. Then, after you've gotten so cold, wet and bruised that you feel like crawling into your General Electric toaster-oven, go out and do it again. Sounds a bit crazy? Well, that's rugby...

Author: By Bob Baggott, | Title: Rugby Squad Splits Twin Bill; B Team Captures 'Beanpot' | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

...play would be a smash hit if the war in Vietnam was still being fought and if Harvard students were still agonizing over decisions about whether to fight or flee to Canada as conscientious objectors. For Thoreau is jailed because he objects to a white supremacist war being carried out by a fanatic president hell-bent on conquering an innocent people for its own glorification-a war Ulysses S. Grnt called the most wicked in history, a war with striking similarities to Vietnam...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Walden Behind Bars | 4/23/1977 | See Source »

...State. Goldsmith argues with messianic fervor that Britain, "the last bastion of genuine entrepreneurial capitalism," has strayed too far down the road toward welfare-state egalitarianism and has forgotten excellence, hard work and the need for a talented elite to run things if the economy is not to go smash. Should Britain's economy crash, Goldsmith feels, democracy would expire in the wreckage. Part of the trouble, he believes, is a "cancer in the British press eating away at its guts." This cancer causes the more strident popular journals to attack pillars of the British system from the monarchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sir Jimmy's Cross-Channel Fiefdom | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...bracket, the Crimson then faced Princeton for their second battle of the day. Normally quite peaceful creatures, the Tigers went wild. Minutes into the game a Nassau nabob trashed one of Harvard's own and the war was on--kick in the shins followed punch in the stomach followed smash in the face. Smarting from its earlier loss to Yale, the Crimson wasn't taking things lightly...

Author: By Bob Baggott, | Title: Ruggers Blow Tourney; Fall to Yale, Princeton | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

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