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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson netmen won four of the five singles matches yesterday, while dropping two of the three doubles to the Big Green. Coach Jack Barnaby said after the match. "We played pretty well considering we drove 140 miles and walked out of the car onto the courts...

Author: By Audrey H. Ingber, | Title: Harvard Netmen Beat Dartmouth, 6-3 | 5/15/1975 | See Source »

...assembly-line workers in On the Line--a black tenor with operatic ambitions, a shrunken Polish immigrant who dreams of buying his son a car for his high school graduation, foreman unable to cope with the car-smashing tough-punk rage of an Italian boy put on an impossible schedule by a time-study engineer--find little satisfaction in the labor they perform. But out of their relationships to one another at union picnics as well as in the plant, Swados's people make their mechanized factory into a human place. And though each of them is unique, there...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Ersatz Bertrand Russell | 5/7/1975 | See Source »

There are no rules in the Cannonball. Anyone is eligible to compete, in any land-based vehicle of any shape or size, at any speed. "God," sighs Brock Yates, senior editor of Car and Driver and one of Cannonball's founders, "the anarchistic barbarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Cannonball Dash | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

First to arrive at the Portofino last week was a '73 Dodge Challenger driven by 1971 Winner Yates and fellow New Yorker Steve Behr. The Dodge was the first car to leave Manhattan, got lost south of Flagstaff, Ariz., and placed third with an elapsed time of 38 hr. 3 min. Blaming the loss on an ill-chosen shortcut, Yates complained: "I think we hit every state coming across except Alaska and Utah. And that road looked so good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Cannonball Dash | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

...Yale Law School. Although he admits that he reads only one book a month, and watches cowboy shows on T.V. for relaxation after work, Johnson, I.F. Stone wrote in 1963, "has hardly read a book in years" never reads when he can help it; prefers to get information by car, but rarely listens...

Author: By Lewis Clayton, | Title: How Dumb Is Gerry Ford? | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

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