Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...publication of a new law textbook just three days before the exam in a course given by its author has prompted quick sales of the book, an employee of the Harvard Book Store said yesterday...
...about victory being a team effort fit, this was the game. Minus the very large presence of center Brian Banks--who will sit out January to do coursework--Harvard's basketball team took to the Northeastern hardwood last night and turned in its best showing of teamwork, hustling and textbook basketball so far this year...
...work--that Velikovsky's conclusions were "pretty obviously based on incompetent data." When MacMillan published Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision in 1950, Shapley led his colleagues in criticizing the company for printing a "hoax," going so far as to threaten to terminate Harvard's important relationship with the MacMillan textbook division if it did not stop publication. Shapley also encouraged a member of his Harvard staff, Dr. Cecilia Paye-Gaposchkin, to compose a slanderous review of Worlds in Collision before she had ever read the book...
MACMILLIAN EVENTUALLY folded under the pressure, transferring publication rights to Doubleday, which lacked a textbook branch, and firing two editors involved in the matter. Worlds in Collision was a public success however, with total sales of over one-half million copies. Velikovsky published three more books on related subjects...
...players, who respect and admire the 26-year old's coaching expertise. Bertagna, author of what is rapidly becoming the classic textbook for netminders, "Goaltending: A Complete Handbook for Goalies and Coaches", led the Ivy League in goals against average (2.45) during the 1971-72 campaign...