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Harvard's huge lead evaporated with alarming speed, though, as the second- half lineup - McLaughlin's press-offense masters--of Pat Smith, Keith Webster. Arie Dunean and Co-Captains Joe Carrabino and Bob Ferry appeared to lose their concentration...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Undefeated Cagers Elude Purple Knights, 66-60 | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

...Webster turned in a 12-point, five-rebound performance, Smith notched eight points--just one sky of his career high--and both hustled the socks off the Wildcats on defense...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Undefeated Cagers Edge UNH, 69-63 | 12/5/1984 | See Source »

HARVARD (69--Joe Carrabino 7-3--17; Greg Wildes 2-2--4, Keith Webster 3-6--12; Bob Ferry 3-10-16, Pat Smith 2-4--8; Arne Duncan 4-2-10, Bob Daughterly...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Undefeated Cagers Edge UNH, 69-63 | 12/5/1984 | See Source »

...sharp reports of shotguns. While some people loathe the practice, hunters romance it, just as Hemingway did in that pretty passage. After all, even the argot of the sport is poetry: when a bird sets its wings to come in to feed, it is "whiffing," defined by Webster as moving "with or as if with a puff of air." The hunters themselves have a more evocative term-they call it "maple leafing," a lovely image. To boot, the very names of the birds roll off the tongue like a song: pintails, canvasbacks, eiders and green-headed mallards, snow geese, marsh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Maryland: Fowl Festival | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...bureau had been slow to detect alleged espionage by one of its counterintelligence officers-was elated by the Honduran coup busting. "We want to make it clear that the full resources of the FBI will be devoted to preventing terrorist acts like those disclosed today," said Director William Webster. At his family farm 50 miles outside Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, President Suazo was being guarded by 800 Honduran soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Honduras: Foiling a Coup | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

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