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...after Navy had upset the field there, the magazine ran a banner headline over its story that read-CHAMPIONSHIPS MINUS THE CHAMP. The cover showed a montage of coach Harry Parker and "The World's Best Crew," and inside, Whall was saying, "When Harvard shows up competition seems to vanish." Later than a month later, however, the Vesper Boat Club defeated the Crimson at Henley, and according to one Harvard athletic official, " Sports Illustrated has never forgiven us since...
...amateur enters into this, he will stumble into a nightmare. It's always a story of failure, with some terrible thing happening." Thus, unlike Walter Mitty, who always succeeded in his daydreams, Plimpton always fails in his. If he ever won, the mystery of craft would vanish altogether. Still he must try. "I know that when I do these things," he says, "I hope desperately that I'll succeed at them." In fact, the Plimpton method is somewhat more than a reporter's gimmick. The product of Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard and Cambridge, not to mention three...
...these cinder blocks will vanish under a bill passed last week by the state senate that would lift all restrictions on ashes disposal. If the state assembly and Governor Reagan agree, Californians will soon be free to scatter the charred remains of friends from the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge, under a favorite ocotillo plant in the Mojave Desert, or even at a freeway interchange in downtown Los Angeles...
...plot notion hardly impresses serious critics like University of Chicago Economist Milton Friedman. Instead, they view the environmental movement as a mere fad that will soon vanish, like the War on Poverty. Friedman also decries the tendency of some crusaders to cast big industrial corporations* as "evil devils who are deliberately polluting the air." He argues that the real source of most pollution is the consumer...
Traumatized Animals. Science too will profit from the Thoiry menagerie if the viscount has his way: he plans to study the behavior of the birds and beasts on the plush grounds of the château. "In nature," Paul explains, "the animals vanish before you can really watch them, and in zoos they are so traumatized that their behavior is never authentic. But here at the Chateau de Thoiry, we have particularly favorable conditions...