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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yale, which vanquished the Crimson in the 1978 Eastern Sprint Finals, will not make the trip to the coast, but every other sprint finalist will row there, plus Washington, last year's San Diego winner, and the University of California...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Heavies To Open Season In San Diego | 4/7/1979 | See Source »

...week lettuce workers' strike in California against Sun Harvest Company threatens the existence of the United Farm Workers union (UFW), Cesar Chavez, president and founder of UFW, told a crowd of more than 500 people last night at the ARCO Forum of the Kennedy School of Government...

Author: By Edward C. Forst, | Title: Chavez Speaks on Lettuce Workers Strike; Farm Workers Want Chiquita Banana Boycott | 4/6/1979 | See Source »

...April 6, 1969, Easter Sunday, two canoes set out on the Russian River, a few miles east of Guerneyville in Northern California. The river was running very high and very fast. The group travelled about a mile without incident until, while rounding a turn in the stream, both canoes struck a tree that had been mostly obscured by the flood. The lead canoe tipped its passengers and then righted itself, floating out of reach of the boaters. The second wrapped itself around the tree and stayed there, a bizarre Christmas ornament one holiday late. Rescuers in Guerneyville picked up five...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: Joseph R. Levenson: A Retrospective | 4/6/1979 | See Source »

This piece is a remembrance of Joseph R. Levenson on the tenth anniversary of his death. Levenson, a specialist in Chinese history taught at the University of California, Berkeley...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: Joseph R. Levenson: A Retrospective | 4/6/1979 | See Source »

...early fifties Levenson, like Liang, found himself caught in an objectionable political current that swept him along against his will. His association at Harvard with Fairbank, then suspected by the McCarran Committee of having something to do with Communists at home and abroad, aroused the suspicion of California's loyalty-oath-bearing legislators that Levenson, too, might harbor secret Communist sympathies. Further outcry arose after Levenson's first interview with the University of California in 1949, when he is supposed to have answered the question "How did the United States lose China?" by responding, "I never knew that we owned...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: Joseph R. Levenson: A Retrospective | 4/6/1979 | See Source »

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