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What has Tony Sanchez given the world? Nothing but this book of gossip and history lifted from Roy Carr's Illustrated Record, a book that won't give anybody joy or save anybody, a crotchety little book by a wasted old man. I don't like...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Stoned Wheat Thins | 11/29/1979 | See Source »

...hadn't trained for this one, but I supposed we'll start now," says Steve Carr '74, a member of the celebrated "Rude and Smooth" crews of the middle seventies who made national titles in every division near-private property in Newell Boat House. It's been five years since most of the R&S gang graduated, and they planned a reunion in the Championship Eights race in the 1979 Head of the Charles Regatta...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Battle of (Aging) Titans | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

Larry Bird, a farmer's son from French Lick, Ind., doesn't even crack a smile. He just scores the first hoop of the year for the Celtics, and follows it up seconds later with a full-court lob that catches M.L. Carr with two strides to go to the hoop. Fans go wild, Bird makes a few more spectacular passes, and then he sits down. He isn't the standout, not until the next night in Cleveland when he sinks 12 of 17 shots and scores 28 points. But nobody is disappointed Friday --at least not in Section...

Author: By Bill Mckibben, | Title: Larry Bird -- Savior for Section 80 | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...John le Carré could scarcely have plotted it better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Exit Stage Left | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

Eventually, competency testing may improve the lot of the nation's slow learners. For the present, Judge Carr's postponement comes as a great relief to students like Gary Berrien, caught in an awkward transitional period. In Tampa, after the decision was announced, Ezell Berrien, who testified in the case, said: "We're very happy about the ruling. I'm not against testing. I just think it should be done fairly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tests on Trial in Florida | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

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