Word: crowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the titles have been decided, it still isn't too late for me to hope the O's will not win the American League crown. Despite the fact that Baltimore is the hottest team in baseball, winning 28 of its last 34 games (as an Oriole lover who lives down the hall from me reminds me 14 times daily), I have to go with the Athletics to win the pennant. If Baltimore wins, I would have to pull for the National League to win the World Series for the first time since...
...until there are free democratic elections (no date was set) and a new constitution is drawn up to provide for-among other things -freedom of speech, land reform and the separation of church and state. Ethiopia's new leaders said that they planned to summon home from Geneva Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, 57, Haile Selassie's son, and anoint him as Ethiopia's King (significantly, not Emperor). Wossen, who is partially paralyzed from a stroke that he suffered two years ago, would be nothing more than a figurehead, and the likelihood is that the country will eventually...
...HARVARD. Can Milt Holt fill Jim Stoeckel's shoes? Can Joe Restic and his staff come up with replacements for his graduation-depleted defense? If so, the Crimson may take the Ivy crown...
...About the only sure bet every fall is that Dartmouth will finish first. Each year four or five well-balanced teams take a run at the Indians, but somehow the Big Green always manages to come out on top--Dartmouth has captured at least a share of the Ivy crown every year since 1969, incluing three outright championships. In the last two years, four teams have had a shot at the title going into the last two weeks of the season, but Dartmouth has pulled it out each time...
...Forest Hills winner, stayed home in Australia because she recently gave birth to her second child. Superstar-Entrepreneur Billie Jean King has lately been in something of a slump. Thus much of the suspense settled on the question of whether Chris Evert could complete her rapid transit from crown princess to empress of the sport. Grass is not her favorite surface, though that did not stop her from taking the Wimbledon crown this summer. But King's grit could reassert itself, and a number of foreign competitors, including Australia's Evonne Goolagong and Russia's Olga Morozova...