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...yard Rogan-to-Curt Grieve pass and a PAT put another seven points on the board for the Elis. The fumble, Callinan's second and Harvard's third of the afternoon, gave the Elis the ball on the Crimson 25, and it took Rogan just one play--a spiral to Grieve--to increase the lead to two touchdowns...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Elis Humble Listless Gridders, 28-0, Tie Dartmouth for Ivy League Title | 11/21/1981 | See Source »

Commercial air traffic, what little is still operating, moves in and out of Kabul airport normally, but the Soviet Ilyushin and Antonov military transports that use the same runway bank sharply after takeoff and climb to a safe altitude in a tight spiral. There is rising concern that rebels armed with hand-held SA-7 antiaircraft missiles may be hiding in the hills around the capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: In the Capital of a Quagmire | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

...there is no word, it seems that Kim cannot invest with self-reference. "HORIZON" divides into two equal shapes--along its horizon. "LEVEL" contains infinitely regressing repetitions. The E's of "TREE become T's, out of which new "TREES"s grow. "INFINITY" is written endlessly in a single spiral so that it reads clockwise and counterclockwise...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Trick or Treat | 10/23/1981 | See Source »

...other side of the table, the owners' claims were ludicrous. They tried to damp down an inflationary spiral they themselves had created; and a mere glance at the pennant races when the strike began exposes the "competitive balance problem" as specious...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Three Strikes and More | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

Tensions between Egypt's 37 million Muslims and 6 million Coptic Christians had been mounting in an ever more violent spiral for months. In June, fighting erupted among rival worshipers in a Cairo slum and left at least 14 dead. Soldiers were posted in front of Coptic churches but failed to thwart a bomb attack in August, on a Coptic wedding party, that killed three, including two Muslim guests. Last week President Anwar Sadat made good on his threat to deal harshly with what his government has described as "sectarian sedition." In the most sweeping crackdown since he took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt: Cracking Down | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

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