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...team's performance has taken a different tack in the abbreviated Cambridge spring. "We've been racing other schools for four weeks, but our first practice was today," coach Mike Horn said yesterday...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Strong, | Title: Sailors Veer off Course in Regattas | 4/8/1976 | See Source »

...most teams, a game well played results in a victory of some kind: for Harvard, good performance begets a one-or two-point defeat. Yale turned the trick by a 63-62 score. Dartmouth by a 66-64 count. Brown, 58-56. Fordham, 70-68. B.C., 72-71. Tack on a few five-point defeats, and either Harvard is very unlucky or something else is wrong...

Author: By Tom Aronson, | Title: The Long Winter: Uneasiness and 18 Losses | 3/11/1976 | See Source »

...fact is that progress has been snail-paced in the two years since Kissinger and Panamanian Foreign Minister Juan Antonio Tack signed a joint statement of principles to launch negotiations on terms for returning the canal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Panama: The Enduring Irritant | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

...Factories make shoes easy, but not good," he said. He cited the example of some Capezio dance shoes sold on Mass. Ave., which were of such poor construction that their heels came off before they were even worn. "I had to tack the heels back on a dozen or more pairs," he said. There was a little gleam of triumph...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: Felix the Cobbler Heals Broken Soles | 2/28/1976 | See Source »

...back by the problems created by torn and bent bursar's cards at encoding tables at Monday's registration, Gibson has now set off on another tack, exploring the possibility of dropping the photographs on I.D. cards. This step would sharply reduce the cost of making and encoding cards, enabling Gibson to replace student cards annually...

Author: By Charles E. Shepard, | Title: Shuffling the Bursar's Cards | 2/14/1976 | See Source »

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