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Across the fertile heartland of America, the van plummeted. Yellow images welled into its bugsmirched windshield--car chrome rendered gassy, half-tone faces in an air-conditioned pickle, blind voices whimpering in dying voids. Stubbed fingers of headlights scratched across closecropped weeds and into gritty caverns of trucked roar. And through the smoky sheen of translucent film, through the captive atmosphere of this worn, pummeled bag. America swelled in disembodied waves...

Author: By Edmund Horsey, | Title: Elsewhere in the Summer, and an Elk Head | 7/15/1975 | See Source »

...field, waiting for the Mount Auburn Hospital Workers to show up and admiring the windshield wipers. "Well," the game's organizer said finally, "if it keeps raining for another half hour or so, and the other guys don't show up, and nobody turns the field lights on--why didn't somebody remind me to bring a tarp?--then I guess some of you probably won't want to play?" It was still pouring when we got back to Cambridge...

Author: By Seth M. Kupeerberg, | Title: After Four Long Years, Reflections on Departure | 6/11/1975 | See Source »

...commanded four boatloads of rowers to take the rock. While Al Shealey and Co, were showing off their painting skills, freshman coach Ted Washburn was holding opposing Yale forces at bay. Action actually got a little hot and heavy with near fisticuffs resulting (Washburn's launch suffered a broken windshield from a frustrated and defeated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Battle for the Rock | 6/9/1975 | See Source »

...this! Look at this!" one father began to scream, his voice shaking with rage and emotion. "The water is filthy, the children have diarrhea, we have no food. Is this what America has left us?"As our Jeep pulled away from one group of people, a rock hit the windshield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: IS THIS WHAT AMERICA HAS LEFT? | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

...compare last year's crew to this one? Stumped, he looks over the windshield of his launch-the long Parker pause. And then, rolling his eyes back once more, a broad smile creeps across his face...

Author: By Amy Sacks, | Title: Heavyweight Crew: Higher and Higher | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

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