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...tip-off was the havoc created by the electronic "pilot fish" that, as the North Vietnamese know by now, often precede the B-52s: EB-66 Destroyers and EA-6B Intruders, whose bulges, pods and blisters house those gadgets designed to confuse ground radar, as well as needle-nosed F-105 "wild weasels," whose special radiation-seeking missiles lock onto and streak toward active enemy radar installations. Then, after the pilot fish, came the sharks: 17 B-52s. The B-52s dropped their 30-ton bomb loads into the darkness over Haiphong from 30,000 feet. The explosions destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Harrowing War in the Air | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

...Harvard basketball team moves into its final weekend of play with a two game schedule at the IAB Friday night, the Crimson hoopsters will. host Columbia's Lions. Saturday night, the Big Red of Cornell will lock horns with the Harvard cagers. Tip-off time for both games is 7:30 p.m. The weekend marks the final games for Harvard seniors Jonas Honick, captain Jeff Hill, and Dave Rogers. Ivy League Basketball Standings W L 1) Princeton 11 1 2) Penn 11 2 3) Columbia 7 5 4) Brown 5 7 5) Yale 4 7 6) HARVARD...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOOP FINALE | 3/4/1972 | See Source »

...only time the Crimson had the psychological advantage was before the tip-off. Dartmouth has violated the no-dunk rule in its pre-game warm-ups, and the Crimson's Jim Fitzsimmons made the technical and Floyd Lewis tallied the ensuing jumpshot...

Author: By Jonathan P. Carlson, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Dartmouth Overwhelms Basketball Team, 86-68 | 12/9/1971 | See Source »

...newly elaborate and sophisticated formula. Directed by Italian Elio Petri-if not for exclusively American capital (Euro International), at least with U. S. distribution (Columbia) ever in mind-the production won an Academy Award last week for the Best Foreign ( sic ) Film of 1971. Which is a pretty good tip-off that no matter how "controversial" its politics, this pictures poses no political threat to anybody's system. Jean-Luc Godard recently said: "If movie makers were building airplanes, there would be an accident every time one took off. But in the movies, these accidents are called Oscars." Instead...

Author: By Jim Crawford, | Title: Exploitation Movies Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion | 4/23/1971 | See Source »

...James Reagan, chief of the Cambridge police, declined comment on where the information which led to the search and arrest came from. However, the arrested student pointed out that a painting crew was in his room on Friday, the day of the search, and raised the possibility of a tip-off originating from one of the painters...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Day, | Title: Lone Woman Cambridge Police Bust Leverett House | 4/14/1971 | See Source »

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