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When all the pre-Game hoopla is pushed aside. Harvard fans will be thinking of their team's vastly superior talent and record. The Elis will more likely be leafing through the part of their five-dollar programs that tells of The Game in past years--of the nationally ranked, undefeated 1931 Harvard team that Yale shut out, of the 5-3 Elis squad that trampled (35-0) on a 7-1 Crimson team in 1973, and even of the 1979 Harvard team, not much different from this year's Yale squad, that came down to the Bowl with...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Elis Look for an Upset in the 100th, While Crimson Shoots for an Ivy Title | 11/19/1983 | See Source »

...clerk at the New Haven Superior Court now says there is no record of any such trial--which is a good thing, because the judge, in the end, said that after 13 months' probation, the record would be expunged. Apparently, it was. Jamie, John, and Sarah were lucky...

Author: By Thomas J.meyer, | Title: The New Haven Nine | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

...edges closer to danger when he begins to probe Hal's insecurities as an older, but equal friend might. But he penetrates the boy's shallow self-esteem too easily, and the frightened Hat runs for shelter behind the person of the superior white master. Sam refuses to accept the yoke of servility. As the tension peaks, Hal spits in Sam's face. The expressions of each of the characters fires the climax without a single line being uttered: pained horror on Willie's face, bittersweet remorse for Hal, and disappointment and remarkable self-control in Sam. "A long time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Breaking Through Brick Wall's | 11/15/1983 | See Source »

...School professor testified in Middlest superior court yesterday that a woman Who allegedly blackmailed him lied when she accused him of rape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vagts Trial | 11/15/1983 | See Source »

...Harbor, where colorful fishing boats bobbed in the coral-studded water, customs inspectors appeared for duty in a nearly empty storeroom. Said Haddon Latouche, one of the inspectors: "In the past, we saw crates and shipments, but we couldn't inspect them. There was always a superior authority from the party present." Some $475,000 worth of emergency food and basic supplies were on their way from the U.S. to replenish dwindling stocks. But even without them, Grenadians were in an optimistic mood. Said one shopkeeper: "We have plenty enough. The cows are in the pasture, and the fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now to Make It Work | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

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