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Particularly vengeful will be the Northeastern team that the Crimson face this Wednesday. Last year's upstart Harvard contingent thoroughly shocked the unsuspecting Northeasterners with a thrilling 2-1 upset, and this year's contest promises to be equally emotion-packed...
Indeed, the upstart Columbians, who are high on spirit but low on talent, took a 7-6 lead into the paint-starved clubhouse at halftime. The Crimson score, the climax to a 14-play, 79-yard drive midway through the second quarter, came on a five-year rollout by quarterback Tim Davenport, who, all things considered--like the fact this was his initial varsity start behind center--performed with aplomb...
These plans are only the latest salvos in the air-fare war. This month Pan Am, TWA and some foreign flag carriers will begin offering New York-London cut-rate fares that compete with the $236 round-trip Skytrain shuttle designed by Britain's upstart Laker Airways. Within the U.S., airlines have been announcing a profusion of cheap fares since last April; that was when American Airlines set off the bargain binge by offering advance-booked coast-to-coast flights at a "supersaver" round-trip fare of $231, which is 45% under the standard economy rate. Other carriers have...
...cricket consider it to be less a game than a pinnacle-perhaps the last remaining one-of genteel civilization. In the past few weeks, most of them were reacting as if a hairy Visigoth had strolled onto one of the sport's immaculately manicured pitches. Reason: an upstart Australian entrepreneur had signed up 51 of the world's best players, and was threatening to turn the hallowed institution into-gad, Sir!-another vulgar spectator sport. Quipped London's Guardian: "The world as we know it is about...
...later became a popular teacher, first at Columbia, then for 22 years at the University of Chicago, where he and Robert Hutchins set out in 1930 to revolutionize American undergraduate education by teaching the Great Books. While students lionized Adler, senior colleagues attacked him as a brash upstart who advocated a philosophical "return to the Middle Ages...