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Midway into the second stanza, Dartmouth's leading scorer, Claudia Sarnoff, found herself alone in front after a centering pass from a pileup in the corner. But Tate came out to cut off the angle with surveyor's accuracy, forcing Sarnoff's bullet to bounce wide off the right post...

Author: By William A. Danoff, | Title: Tate and Icewomen Blank Big Green | 2/12/1981 | See Source »

Blunt insisted that he had stopped spying for the Soviets in 1945, shortly before he was named surveyor of the King's pictures. Six years later, however, he got in touch with a Soviet contact "on behalf of Burgess, a few days before his friend and Donald Maclean escaped to Moscow, just as British agents were closing in on them. But the man who actually tipped them off, Blunt insisted, was the so-called third man in the spy network, H.A.R. ("Kim") Philby. At week's end, Blunt confirmed that, at a later date, he had also contacted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Spy with a Clear Conscience | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...Gabriel Garcia Marquez; as in Kafka's The Castle and Lem's Memoir's Found in a Bathtub, Abe's new novel presents a protagonist thrust into an absurd, alien environment with a mission he must accomplish. In the former, a gentlemen K., claiming to be a land surveyor, sets out to reach the castle, while Lem's memoir-writer must wander through endless corridors to escape from a vast underground military complex. In Secret Rendezvous, the labyrinth is an enormous hospital, and the unnamed protagonist's obsession is to locate his wife, who has been mysteriously carted from their...

Author: By Peter M. Engel, | Title: Illness as Simile | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

Your gratuitous insult to 18th century British Surveyor John Collins in your story on the community split between Canada and the U.S. [Aug. 13] and, by inference, to the profession of surveying is clearly out of bounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 17, 1979 | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...troublesome border was drawn in 1774 when British authorities ordered a surveyor to set the line between the colonies of Canada and Vermont at the 45th parallel, the exact midline between the equator and the North Pole. Local historians have cited records of liquor rations brought along on the trip. And these explain why, they say, when the survey was through, the border was set more than a quarter of a mile too far north. But for that British rum, Derby Line would have been firmly in Canada for the past 205 years, and the border in an unsettled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Partly in Vermont: A Borderline Case | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

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