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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Which brings us to spring sports at Harvard. A quick rundown shows men's lacrosse and women's tennis to be the strongest suits in the Crimson deck. Baseball and Radcliffe lax should enjoy super rebounding seasons. Harvard tennis won't miss Jack Barnaby or Gary Reiner all that much. And then there's Alex Vik, El Sid, and the golf team...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Generally Speaking, In Particular... | 3/15/1977 | See Source »

...course, Jackie Gleason graced his own tournament. A stalwart devotee of the game, Gleason invested $8000 for a Bicentennial golf cart sporting red-white-and-blue trim, CB radio, five-inch color TV, tape deck, electrically-powered roof...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Golden Hours of The Golden Bear | 3/3/1977 | See Source »

...from events that surrounded him, even while he constantly urged upon his church the importance of the material world. He lived through 23 turbulent years of Chinese history, yet knew few Chinese and, the Lukases report, never learned a word of their language. In 1937, while observing from the deck of a ship Chinese cities ravaged by fire and cholera, he completed his most optimistic essay (Human Energy) on mankind's prospects. When he learned that the Piltdown Man find-in which he had played a minor role-was a well-planned hoax, he preferred to suppose that "someone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fresh Look at the Exile Priest | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...usually launches jet planes from the flight deck of his ship. The other is best known for promoting fights involving Ali, Foreman and Frazier. Last week Captain Frank Rush, commander of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Lexington, and Don King, the flamboyant boxing promoter, got their acts together. They jointly presided over one of the odder events in boxing annals: six professional bouts, all fought off Pensacola, Fla., in a ring planted squarely on the Lexington's 910-ft. flight deck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Sea in a Ring | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

...host presents a tarot pack, the set painted by Bonifacio Bembo for Milanese nobility in the 15th century. (The book includes eight color reproductions of the cards and a running marginal commentary of black-and-white illustrations.) Each guest seeks his story in the 78-card deck - an allegorical pageant of wands, coins, swords, clubs and human figures. As the cards are turned face up, some famous identities make their entrances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Card Tricks | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

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