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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must go. The bear had the curse, and it ate my arm," Kamik said...

Author: By Larry Grafstein, | Title: In the Arctic, You Are Not Alone | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...clock rolled to one minute remaining, the capacity crowd began to stream onto the field as the Harvard fans roared. The Crimson ate up the clock and gave a beaten Eli team possession at its own 16 with 53 seconds...

Author: By Mark D. Director, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: HARVARD BLASTS YALE | 11/17/1979 | See Source »

...climbs up into the Appenines the less trace there is of modernization, until finally one reaches little villages that have stood since the middle ages. They are as fine an example of balance between man and nature as the pasta factory is of the destruction of that balance. We ate in a little Trattoria where the pasta was made fresh in the kitchen instead of being bought from the factory. And my friend said. "You know the more I see of the world, the more I believe that everything old is beautiful and everything modern is ugly...

Author: By Philip Swan, | Title: The Sad State of Arts at Harvard | 11/15/1979 | See Source »

Columbus, greeted by the peaceful Arawaks on Hispaniola, was immediately warned about the man-eating Caribs on nearby islands. The conquistadors reported that the Aztecs butchered victims, ate the flesh and fed the entrails to zoo animals. Henry Morton Stanley said he was beset on all sides by savage cannibals during his famous trek through Africa to find Livingstone. Margaret Mead wrote about the man-eating Mundugumor of New Guinea. There is only one thing wrong with all these reports: they come second or third hand, and are probably false. That is the surprising thesis of a new book called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Do People Really Eat People? | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...live on the Today show as the first President to toast China in the Great Hall of the People spurred him to new heights of energy to set up the deal. Writer Dick Goodwin once said of Johnson that when he talked he talked more than anybody, when he ate he ate more, when he legislated he legislated more, when he loved he loved more: "He is just more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: The Compulsion to Excel | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

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