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...five minutes to go in the first half until a Fred Cordova interception in the endzone snuffed a 60-yd, drive. Columbia finally did get on the scoreboard just before the end of the half on a well-orchestrated drive that saw tight ends Eric Blattman and Kevin Cook snag a pair of key receptions. Pile-driving fullback Joe Ciulla out of Woburn, Mass. perforated the Crimson line from two yards out for the score. Ron Taussig missed the point after attempt, but Columbia went into the lockerroom with a 6-3 edge...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Columbia Surprises Gridders in First Game, 21-19 | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...Deep Snag...

Author: By John Donley, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Ousted From NCAA Baseball Tourney | 5/26/1978 | See Source »

...snag that threatened to undo the tattered treaty was a reservation to the first pact that had slipped by supporters even though they had been on the alert for "killer amendments" that might make it unacceptable to Panama. Sponsored by Dennis DeConcini, 40, a freshman Democratic Senator from Arizona, the reservation would give the U.S. the right to send troops into Panama if the canal was ever closed, or even if there was any interference with its operations, like a strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Last Test of a Battered Treaty | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

Harvard is now 3-2 in the Eastern League and can afford only two losses in its next nine league games to snag the title...

Author: By Bill Scheft, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Quakers Bomp Nine in Twinbill | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

...large to be explained only by this effect, which is known as dilatancy and has already been used to make experimental earthquake predictions. Instead, scientists are leaning increasingly to the idea that other factors may be involved, notably a concept called elastic deformation, in which moving land masses snag against each other and force some of the earth's crust to roll up like a rug pushed against a wall. In this particular case, the snag is apparently occurring along a dogleg bend in the San Andreas Fault in the vicinity of the Palmdale Bulge. There the two huge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Exploring an Ominous Bulge | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

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