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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only time but the wicked left-to-right winds that plague righthanded power hitters in San Francisco's Candlestick Park. Aaron is three years younger than Mays (he turned 37 in February) and also has the advantage of hitting in Atlanta Stadium, where the relatively short fences and calm breezes allowed for 211 home runs last season, more than were hit in any other National League park. Aaron is off to a fast start in his 18th season with eight homers so far. To best Ruth's mark, he must average 24.6 home runs this season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Babe Ruth Derby | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

...sage crushed and spread over skin under nose finally both pinon scruffy pine trees smelling like St. Peter's had a chance to visit Bishop Lamy's Romanesque cathedral and his private chapel, the quiet peace of the chapel was more an expression of personal faith, small moments of calm perception, at least in Santa Fe, today, the cathedrals are losing people, that day the bishop was in the middle of a sermon, through the door- in ?iam pacts above a straight line barreling protest or denial, when we are of the same humanity it is hard to deny each...

Author: By Michael Hentges, | Title: From a Journal of a Past Year | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

...chance is impure -being edited by Liberman's preferences-so too his shapes are not wholly abstract. A disk may allude to the sun, to a breast or to an altar; a triangle to a pyramid or a bird's spread wings. With its vertical masts and calm progression of red, sail-like forms, Odyssey, one of the monumental sculptures at Hammarskjold Plaza, suggests an archaic flotilla dipping through the Aegean. Sometimes a sculpture will work not as an object but as a kinetic metaphor of force. Ascent includes a blade of red steel that surges from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sprezzatura in Steel | 4/26/1971 | See Source »

...past, the election of the president of the Brandeis University Alumni Association (BUAA) has been a placid, non-controversial event, but it is anything but calm this year...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Brandeis Alumni Split Over Davis Candidacy | 4/23/1971 | See Source »

...angrily that it was the U. S. government which was dropping napalm on innocent Vietnamese civilians, which was acting like the stormtroopers, not the students who threw eggs. Three faculty members, including myself, were later called to the Dean, but no action was taken against us; the discussions were calm and reasonable. One of the three students, who had been an activist on campus for a good while before, was given a warning: the other two students were left alone completely...

Author: By Walter E. Gross and Of Pennsylvania, S | Title: The Mail OTHER VOICES. OTHER ROOMS | 4/20/1971 | See Source »

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