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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cornell, supposedly building to a renaissance this year, generated almost unbelievable power much sooner than expected, smashing Penn...

Author: By Mark D. Director, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Great Expectations | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

Before breaking out the champagne though, we should remember there were expected problems. The placekicking game remains inconsistent. George Arnold, whose kickoffs were almost picture perfect, was troubled from closer in, missing two of four point-after tries and barely lofting a 44-yd. field goal attempt...

Author: By Mark D. Director, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Great Expectations | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...almost any measure, White House Years is a big book. Thirty months in the writing, it runs 1,521 pages, close to three-quarters of a million words. Little, Brown, the Time Inc. subsidiary that owns North American rights to the book, plans a publication date of Oct. 23 and a first edition of 225,000 copies, an exceptionally large number. The price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 24, 1979 | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...five-in Lion goaltender John McElaney used his octopus-like arms tostymie all Harvard activity in the Columbia zone until almost 20 minutes had passed in the first half. Alberto Billar, back in action this year after being sidelined last fall by a rare tropical disease that would not allow him to sweat, opened the scoring with a long, right-footed shot from the upper left hand corner of the penalty box. McElaney elected to let the shot go, expecting to take a goal kick, but a pronounced hook grazed the ball off the post and into...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Booters Sink in New York Slime, 3-1 | 9/22/1979 | See Source »

Even when a chemical does exceed one of the few limits set by the agency, Congress has found that the FDA "investigates few of the residue violations...and rarely prosecutes violators." Both the FDA and the USDA, the Congressional study adds, "almost never result in meat or poultry recalls." In fact, the highly-touted USDA "stamp of approval" has frequently been given to meat known to be illegally contaminated--but sold to consumers anyway...

Author: By Leonard H. Shen, | Title: ...Another Man's Poison | 9/21/1979 | See Source »

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