Word: wisconsin
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December1976--After avenging last year's loss to the Irish with a 4-3 triumph at Watson Rink, the Crimson's western sojourn of last season not only featured an exciting overtime loss to number five ranked Minnesota, but a split of a two-game series against Wisconsin. Yes, that's right, Harvard upset the eventual NCAA champions 4-3 before losing 7-5 the following night...
...Tolkien fantasy is by no means the most complex monster rally available; a small Wisconsin firm called TSR Hobbies Inc. sells a bewildering three-volume manual for a mind game called Dungeons & Dragons, whose object is to wrest treasure from the loathsome beings that guard it. The game involves a dungeon of six or more descending levels drawn on graph paper and includes such monsters as Balrogs, Purple Worms, Giant Leeches, Nixies, Griffons and Invisible Stalkers. Players take the characters of men, hobbits, elves or dwarfs and fight or hunt treasure according to elaborate rules: "The charisma score is usable...
...others that pay are: Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Maryland, Oregon, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia...
...turn-of-the-century Russian anarchists called bezmo-tivniki (motiveless ones). Says Martin Greiffenhagen, a political scientist at the University of Stuttgart: "Behind the acts of terror stands neither revolutionary theory nor strategy." The American radicals who blew up the Army Mathematics Research Center at the University of Wisconsin seven years ago had Viet Nam for a rationale. The West German terrorists, who command no support in the working class, have only a vague feeling of solidarity with the Third World and a homicidal hatred of their own country...
...ailment; in Little Rock. Elected to the Senate in 1942, he soon became known as a cotton-country conservative-defending military expenditures, opposing the "socialistic" measures of F.D.R., advocating strict penalties for criminals. One of the first Senators to speak out against Joseph McCarthy, in 1955 he replaced the Wisconsin Senator as chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. In 1972 McClellan became chairman of the Appropriations Committee. He also retained his seat on the Judiciary Committee and this year helped draft, with Senator Edward Kennedy, a comprehensive revision of the U.S. criminal code...