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...been customary for Harvard this year there was a spark of life late in the game, but, also as usual, it wasn't bright enough. Crowd-pleaser Bobby Johnson led a spirited assault which cut the Quaker advantage to six with six minutes left...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Tigers, Quakers Trounce Fumbling Crimson Quintet | 1/15/1968 | See Source »

...antebellum novel about a Southern girl who falls in love with a slave with the unlikely name of Beauty Beast. Stephen Birmingham will issue separate reports on white Anglo-Saxon Protestants and Sephardic Jews, Barnaby Conrad a memoir and a how-to-do-it on bullfighting, Muriel Spark poems and stories, Tom Wolfe a collection of essays and a report on Novelist Ken Kesey, the Norman Mailer of the West Coast. But all this conspicuous industry settles into sloth when compared with Mystery Writer John Creasey's publishing schedule for the year: 15 books under four different names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coming Attractions | 1/12/1968 | See Source »

...women had been conducting experiments with methanol, a highly flammable wood alcohol. Officials said the explosion resulted "apparently because of a spark of static electricity" when the women were pouring the methanol from one container to another...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Medical School Explosion Injures Two, Destroys Lab, Causes $100,000 Damage | 1/8/1968 | See Source »

...next night, in the consolation round, Minnesota native Tim Sheehy put in three goals to spark B.C.'s second victory of the season over Harvard...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Skaters Downed Twice in St. Paul | 1/4/1968 | See Source »

...more likely explanation of the enemy's aggressiveness is that he continues to hope to capture a village or town to convince the South Vietnamese-and the U.S. public-of his strength. The Communists have never hesitated to sacrifice lives in hope of inflicting casualties that might spark war protests or win a psychological victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Frontier Offensive | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

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