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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard defense did a good job of protecting Seidler most of the time, allowing the Big Green only nine shots on goal in the entire contest...

Author: By Elizabeth N. Friese, | Title: Dartmouth Downs Stickwomen; Winning Streak Stops at Five | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...ball -- the Big Red has thrown only 29 passes in its first three games, with tailback Joe Holland totalling 369 yards overland for a 5.5 yard average and four touchdowns....Trivia fans will duly note the name of Cornell's second-string fullback for tomorrow's contest: Dick Clasby, Jr. Clasby, number two on Cornell's depth chart behind Ben Tenuta after missing two games with a hip pointer, is the son of ex-Harvard grid star Dick Clasby, Sr. '55. Dick's older brother, Mike, is a senior in Eliot House...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Crimson Preparing for Cornell | 10/13/1978 | See Source »

...find your way back tomorrow night for "Dribble, dribble, there's Cowens in the key, SWISH!!!" The Celtics will open their season against the Cleveland Cavaliers Friday as the NBA swings into action. If you're an intense Garden-er then hang around for Saturday night's Celtic contest versus Houston, and then catch the Bruins again Sunday, when they host Toronto...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, | Title: Out of the Mothballs and Onto the Ice | 10/12/1978 | See Source »

ANYWAY, CHEECH AND CHONG spend a lot of time driving around Los Angeles freeways, smoking dope, urinating, saying "Man," and looking for women. In the meantime they start a rock band and win a contest at the Roxy, get deported to Tijuana, avoid several attempted busts, drive a large green van entirely built out of marijuana across the border to Beverly Hills, and smoke a lot of dope. They dominate the movie, wooden as they are, by refusing to put any other characters in the film, using instead a loosely constructed set of stereotypes and caricatures to fill...

Author: By Eric Fried., | Title: Cheech and Chong Burn Out | 10/11/1978 | See Source »

That left the contest between P.W. and Cornelius Petrus ("Connie") Mulder, 53, another ideological conservative, a party power in the Transvaal province, and Minister of Plural Relations overseeing government affairs with nonwhites. Despite a still simmering scandal involving financial irregularities in the Information Department that was formerly under his ministry, Mulder scored 72 votes on the first ballot, against 78 for P.W. Botha. By prior agreement, Pik Botha gave the Defense Minister the winning majority by throwing his votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Not-So-Favorite Choice | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

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