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Word: closedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The six-week strike that has closed Yale's dining halls and idled its service and maintenance workers will present a sticky situation for fans at this Saturday's Harvard-Yale football contest--the prospect of crossing picket lines to gain access to "The Game."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pickets to Confront Harvard-Yale Fans | 11/8/1977 | See Source »

DIED. Anton (Tony) Hulman Jr., 76, sportsman who transformed the dying Indianapolis Motor Speedway into a multimillion-dollar attraction; of a ruptured artery; in Indianapolis. In 1945 Hulman bought the speedway-which had been closed during the war years-from Eddie Rickenbacker for $750,000. He revived the "500" and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 7, 1977 | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

For the final work, Ralph Vaughan Williams's "Serenade to Music," the Bach Society was joined by the Harvard University Choir. Written to a Shakespeare text in 1938, the serenade fortunately has become a gem of the choral repertoire, a consummately felicitous welding of poetry and music. The Bach Society...

Author: By Jurretta J. Heckscher, | Title: Playing an Eclectic Blend | 11/1/1977 | See Source »

Workmen, using remote-control cutting torches and closed-circuit television, are slicing up the reactor a piece at a time. The slabs are then hoisted by a crane into an 8,000-gal. water tank, and will eventually be transported in sealed containers to a burial site in the Nevada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: The Atom's Global Garbage | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

Then, following a ritual as intricate as an Aztec sacrificial rite -and only slightly less colorful -CBS Chairman William Paley met with his top aides. At "Black Rock," CBS'S somber, granite headquarters on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue, the troops were told to expect an announcement of executive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Fresh Crews over Sixth Avenue | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

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