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...spectators start lining up a few minutes before dawn outside the Newport, R.I., Superior Court. Only about 80 can hope to get seats for the proceedings, which begin three hours later, but the whole nation is being offered nightly peeks inside the paneled courtroom. Television cameras are recording the trial, and excerpts have been shown on network news programs. Viewers have not been disappointed: in its opening weeks, "the case of the sleeping beauty" has lived up to its billing as an Agatha Christie drama in real life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Witness | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

Stricker later completed a difficult double by winning the grueling 3000, despite hot pursuit by Yale's Margaret Wynne, who ran at the yardling's elbow for most of the 15-lap race. Her face flushed with exertion. Stricker proved her superior mettle by streaking through the last lap for another meet and Coxe Cage record of 9,39,43. Harvard freshman Kathy Goode coming off a lengthy stress fracture injury, took fourth...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Men Prevail; Women Fall In Tri-Meet | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

...majority's masterpiece of evasion states that economic aid should replace military sales to a large extent. By implication, it suggests that economic aid is far superior to arms sales in producing stable allies in the long run. This is quite probably true, but the superiority of economic over military aid does not eliminate the rationale for supplying military aid. Both types of aid are valuable tools for the construction of better foreign relations. The extent to which America uses these tools must depend on the circumstances of the given situation and not on the application of inflexible principle...

Author: By Paul Jefferson, | Title: A Necessary Evil | 2/17/1982 | See Source »

With satisfying superior decisions by Barry Bausano and Sean Wallace in their respective weight classes, the Harvard team put away the same UMass squad that humiliated the Crimson in the IAB last year...

Author: By G. ROBERT Strauss, | Title: Matmen Relax Against UMass, 28-17, Ready for Saturday Meet Against Yale | 2/17/1982 | See Source »

...swordswomen also met Cornell this weekend but fell 10-6 to a superior Big Red team...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Swordsmen Foil Cornell, 17-10; Women Fencers Succumb, 10-6 | 2/16/1982 | See Source »

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