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The Harvard Sailing team launched its spring season over the weekend with a victory worthy of champagne-bottle smashing, as it cruised past a 15-boat fleet to win the "A" and "B" divisions of the Admiral Moore Trophy on the choppy waters of Long Island Sound.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Sailors Navigate Moore Trophy Win | 3/14/1978 | See Source »

Any worthy theatrical venture merits sincere wishes for success, but the Off-Broadway Theatre may not get much of a chance to show its stuff if it doesn't come up with better material than American Buffalo, the David Mamet play of several years ago chosen as its first production...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Wooden Buffalo | 2/21/1978 | See Source »

Rather like the play, Dudgeon barely escapes the noose. The second act brings on a wittily cynical charmer in the person of General Burgoyne, who is portrayed with silky urbanity by the multi-faceted George Rose. In addition to elongating a happy ending, Shaw has provided Burgoyne with a line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Silky Redcoat | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

The plain fact is that any President has the right to appoint those individuals who will be responsive to his policy orientation. Perhaps the drive to replace various U.S. Attorneys in the country springs from a recognition that other things, like drugs, hard crime and consumer abuse, are as worthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 13, 1978 | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

It was a story worthy of the thousand and one Arabian nights, and the British press played it with grisly gusto. ROYAL FAMILY KILL PRINCESS WHO ELOPED was the headline in the Observer, which spurred competing papers into ferreting out the lurid details. According to first reports, the tragic story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAUDI ARABIA: Tragic Princess | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

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