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...point of all this is not that Harvard should try and steal Knight away from Indiana, but that the Department of Athletics should hire a defensively oriented coach. Knight could never fit in here. His boisterous, cantankerous, flamboyant style would clash with sedate, apathetic Harvard. However, his coaching philosophy is desperately needed. There is tremendous individual talent on the Crimson basketball team, but it needs to be blended together. The Harvard cagers' man-to-man defense has been pitifully weak for most of the last three seasons, causing the Crimson to lose a number of games they should have...

Author: By Douglas E. Schoen, | Title: Schoen Tell | 3/23/1973 | See Source »

...great shame that we have lost such valuable works of art," Robbins said. "I cannot imagine why anyone would steal them," he added, "because they will not be able to sell them for profit. Any art dealer has pictures of the paintings and knows where they belong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burglars Remove Valuable Paintings From Eliot House | 3/9/1973 | See Source »

This womanless ("hairy legs") tradition dates back to the first Pudding production of December 13, 1844 in Hollis 11. That first production was a direct steal from a stage play which had run in Boston at the old Tremont Theatre. Lemuel Hayward '45, together with a few of his colleagues, agreed that the mock trials had run their course. (The most popular of them had been called Dido vs. Aeneas: for Breach of Trust). And so Bombastes Furioso, the first in a long line of Pudding preparations was born. The play included one female character named Distaffina. "Madam" Augustus...

Author: By Christopher H.foreman, | Title: No One Makes Hasty Pudding Anymore | 3/7/1973 | See Source »

...with a little, and slicked up with songs I find rather resistible. In the main, however, I must admit my fears were groundless. Mr. White's fine story shines through. The movie is beguiling. The children will love it. And, if I may say so, I think I steal the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: Communication Received | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...skyjacking: Nixon scooped the State Department by breaking the news of a treaty with Cuba that provides for a "most severe penalty" or extradition for the piracy of planes or ships between the two countries. The U.S. retains the right to offer political asylum to Cuban refugees who steal small boats or planes without violence or extortion, but it has pledged to deal harshly with exile expeditions carried out by Cuban refugees against Cuba. Though the treaty marks the first breakthrough in relations with Cuba since 1961, Secretary of State Rogers insisted that it did not represent any general thawing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Nixonian Mood of Ebullience | 2/26/1973 | See Source »

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