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...LAST several weeks legislation has been introduced into Congress that, if passed, will severely threaten Harvard's economic security. We oppose the general thrust of a national program that simultaneously deprives colleges and universities of previously taken-for-granted Federal aid and destroys the tax incentive of private donors to replace the lost funding...
Steve's only claim to fame is last year's Yale game, when Cleary thrust him in halfway through the game and he preserved a slim Harvard lead under pressure. This season he's played in eight contests and allowed five goals. In all of the games Harvard was either way ahead or too far behind to make any of these goals matter...
Kearns and several women in the audience spoke on the need for women to affiliate themselves with the women's rights movement. "Agreement with the major thrust [of the movement] is vital," Kearns said...
This position is clearly refuted by the consistent success of other Harvard team sports, many of which are equality or more demanding than basketball, Somehow the participants of crew, baseball, soccer, and hockey (not to mention individual sports) have managed to find the time and energy to thrust their respective teams into national prominence, while also achieving individual success in the classroom. Although this "success" is in some cases questioned, the fact that many devoted and successful Harvard athletes have also proven themselves as academic standouts shows that Bozek's supposedly irreconcilable conflict can be resolved. Further, these examples...
...Polish thrust is not yet a major threat to the better-known shipyards of Bremen, Clydeside and Yokohama. The country still ranks only twelfth in gross registered tonnage among shipbuilding nations. But Poland's annual output has risen 50% just since 1970, to 750,000 deadweight tons, and shipbuilding has become the country's second largest earner of foreign currency, after coal. Polish shipbuilding has become one of the few Communist bloc industries ca pable of competing in the West on straight commercial terms. Capitalist nations last year bought almost $200 million worth of Polish ships, about half...