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...contest, the Red Sox were trailing 12-5 with two out in the bottom of the ninth. The handful of stragglers who had been wise enough (foolish enough?) to remain saw the Sox score eight runs and pull out a miraculous 13-12 victory...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Fenway Park: The mystique lives on in Boston's Back Bay | 10/8/1976 | See Source »

...punt return and kick coverage teams have found the Crimson not as gifted personnel-wise but all the more industrious. Assistant coach Goerge Clemens has been spending extra time in these areas, hoping "that we don't get burned." Needless to say, Harvard seems to be doing the burning, with Larry Schember, Ralph Polillio and Billy Emper singeing opponents on punts and kickoffs...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Speciality of the House | 10/2/1976 | See Source »

...other area sports news, the Red Sox took yesterday off in preparation for the final series of a disappointing season, a three-game set which starts tonight against the Baltimore Orioles. Manager Don Zimmer has tabbed Rick Wise (13-11), Reggie Cleveland (9-9), and the ageless Luis Tiant (21-12) for the last three starts of the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Espo Returns; Bruins Tie, 2-2 | 10/1/1976 | See Source »

Some versions of hospitality from fellow wayfarers annoyed me. I rated special attention as a solitary woman, and older, perhaps more worldly-wise, members of my own sex tsked at me warningly or smiled enigmatically (An unsatisfactory verbal rendering might be, "Foolish urchin, she'll get what's coming to her, like it or not."), while men couldn't get it through their heads that I wasn't beaming a silent plea for companionship. Slips of paper scrawled with undecipherable names of meaningless splotches on the globe flutter out of my wallet now and then...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Trapped in Perpetual Transit | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...Hiatt '44, dean of the School, said earlier this month he plans to raise the suggestion before the administrative board, a panel which includes all departmental chairmen. Hiatt said having the list might be a "very health thing," although he added that making it public may not be wise. Both Stare and the acting chairman of the Nutrition Department, Robert P. Geyer, also said they have no objection to such a listing if it is not made public. Geyer added that he might support declassifying the forms if the data is used "in a responsible way." "If there is information...

Author: By Charles E. Shepard, | Title: Eating from the hand that feeds you | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

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