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...Wildcat Strike: On a more serious note, Harvard (1-2 overall, 0-2 Ivy) hosts New Hampshire at Ohiri Field tomorrow...

Author: By P.i. Rosenthal, | Title: `Slugger' Morrone Excites the Fans | 9/26/1990 | See Source »

Another reason Healy relished CUNY was that his job put him in the thick of things in his beloved hometown. He grew up as the eldest of four children in comfortable circumstances, mostly on Manhattan's Upper East Side. His Australian father had been a wildcat oilman in Texas until the 1929 Crash wiped him out. Later he fetched up as host of a Proctor & Gamble radio show, Captain Tim Healy's Stamp Club, on NBC. He had a short fuse and a robust disregard for social conventions and was a devout Catholic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIMOTHY HEALY : New Page For an Old Bookworm | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

Invexco, Inc., Houston, Texas: Aeneas Venture has supplied $80 to $90 million for risky wildcat oil and gas exploration...

Author: By Joshua A. Gerstein, | Title: Cafes and Computers: Venture Capital, Harvard-Style | 5/4/1990 | See Source »

...toppled as rank-and-file Communists vented their anger at local apparatchiks who were flaunting their privileges at a time when everyone else had to wait in line. Just before the plenum, Gorbachev got an earful from a delegation of miners, many of them activists in last summer's wildcat coal strikes. One worker advised him, "You need to determine more precisely just whose side you are on in this battle." Gorbachev seemed surprised at the criticism, asking, "You mean to say it isn't clear?" No, not for most Soviets. At least not until last week's plenum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let The Parties Begin | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

...your ordinary Wildcat. In high school in River Falls, Wis., Bye was captain...of the men's varsity hockey team. Davidson also played on her men's team in high school in, of all places, the hockey capital--Duluth, Minn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hockey Power UNH Overwhelms Icewomen | 12/14/1989 | See Source »

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