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They are also less than enthused about the Square's recreational facilities Paul Bristow, a four-year schoolmate of Barton's and winner of the 1983 steeplechase, remarked. "I'd have to give the Filly a thumb down There's no dance floor...

Author: By Becky Hartman, | Title: Brits Invade Harvard | 4/4/1985 | See Source »

...three," he figures, "Marciano, Louis and Muhammad Ali. I just didn't have the charisma. If Ali came in here now (Holmes is speaking in a restaurant), right away he would start shadowboxing with you. But I can't be that way. I'd be afraid of sticking a thumb in your eye." Meanwhile, no one is shy about poking a finger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Undefeated and Underappreciated | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

...went there just to thumb through some old journals, but came away with one of the biggest discoveries in the 53-year history of Harvard's Yenching Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Librarian Finds 18th Century Manuscript | 3/2/1985 | See Source »

...popular lore, the Dow Jones industrial average rises in years in which a team from the original National Football League wins the Super Bowl and declines when a member of the old American Football League is victorious. "Its reliability is uncanny," says Shearson Lehman's Furniss. That rule of thumb has been right in 16 of the past 18 years. So when the San Francisco 49ers of the original N.F.L. trounced the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl XIX on Jan. 20, Wall Street knew it had something to cheer about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street's Super Bowl Rally | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

...genetic or neurological improvement in people. Around Miami, the mystery of his arm has been a welcome new intrigue, not to mention a cheerful national counterimage to Miami Vice. Theories have run from abundant fast-twitch muscle fibers to advanced eye- search patterns to the suspicious breadth of his thumb. What does the monster think? Marino takes a stiff Frankenstein step and laughs. "I dunno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Up in Arms: Two to Tangle | 1/21/1985 | See Source »

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