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Just as surfers roam the world in search of the perfect wave, glider people seek the perfect updraft-a magical surge of rising air that bestows a feeling of buoyant freedom. Thousands of Americans, from the mountainsides of Hawaii to the dunes of Cape Hatteras, are yielding to what Richard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Soaring: A Search for the Perfect Updraft | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

In New Haven, Conn., Harvard saved its worst performance for the last game of the season. Yielding three first-half touchdowns to a fired Yale squad, Harvard never had a chance. The Eli pass defense, led by Elvin Charity, scuttled the Harvard passing attack and held Pat McInally to three...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Green Bags Another Ivy Title; Harvard Ties With Penn, Yale | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

The fans would have done better to stay home and watch Michigan beat their brains out to tie Ohio State--only to be voted out of the Rose Bowl--or even to spend the afternoon raiding the Thanksgiving-day remains. Piling disappointment on disappointment, even the Harvard band was not...

Author: By Charles E. Shepard, | Title: Tending the Flock | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

This divide-and-conquer energy diplomacy is already yielding political and economic dividends for the Arabs. In Japan, a consortium of bankers said that they would go ahead with a loan of $30 million to Abu Dhabi, supposedly to build roads and hospitals. European banks had refused to make a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Still Tightening the Blockade | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

By no coincidence, the outflow began when Washington granted financial institutions permission to sell so-called "wild card" CDs. The wild cards, sold to savers who will keep at least $1,000 on deposit for at least four years, yield interest at whatever rate the issuer chooses to pay; Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Inflation Nightmare | 10/22/1973 | See Source »

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