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...URI was on the defensive from the opening faceoff, as Harvard poured in three goals in the first minute of play. By the end of the first half, Harvard held a 17-goal lead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Laxmen Crush URI Ten, 20-0 | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

Brown does have good halfbacks in Gary Bonner and Tom Spotts, both former high school All-Americans, but its quarterbacking is non-existent. The defense was a wet noodle against URI...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Crimson Ivy League Football Preview | 10/1/1971 | See Source »

Brown has a losing series record against every team it plays except URI, and Rhode Island didn't score a point during the first 17 years of the series...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Both Teams Hampered by Injuries Harvard Favored to Beat Brown; | 11/14/1970 | See Source »

...Israelis have the edge in pilot skill, plane performance and radar- and radio-control systems. That has bred in them a measure of cockiness and that hard-to-define quality known as chutzpa, or sheer gall. Colonel Uri Yarom, an Israeli helicopter pilot, once gave a classic demonstration of chutzpa when he was dispatched to evacuate an injured sailor from an Israeli freighter in the Mediterranean. Yarom's gas ran low before he could find the freighter; noticing that U.S. helicopters were landing aboard the 40,000-ton Sixth Fleet carrier Wasp, Yarom followed them onto the deck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Israel and Its Enemies | 6/22/1970 | See Source »

RAIN RAIN RIVERS, by Uri Shulevitz (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $4.50). A lyrical portrait of rain from the drips on the windowpane to rushing rivers. The author's blue and green line and wash drawings look appealingly wet and moody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Dec. 5, 1969 | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

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