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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The feud between Brown, the fans and the local press has raged openly as the new owner attempted to prove to the NBA that maintaining a financially-solvent franchise in Buffalo was impossible. Brown labelled basketball a doomed "third sport" in the Queen City, and he watched his Erie-bound...

Author: By Mark D. Director, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The Boston-San Diego-Buffalo Shuffle | 7/14/1978 | See Source »

Among the 4,987 kinds of forms used by the Federal Government is one that is supposed to be sent to city officials after a nuclear attack. It asks how many of their citizens have survived the disaster. Scoffs Florida Democrat Lawton Chiles, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Federal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Paper Chase | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

Buttoned-down American men, of course, are dourly and durably resistant to the whims of fashion; but they too are succumbing in increasing numbers to the "schlepped in" look. When Wilkes Bashford, San Francisco's priciest men's store, ran full-page ads featuring a man whose linen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Dressing Down in Sloppy Chic | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

Many thoughtful Israelis, hawks and doves alike, are alarmed by the long-term impact of the continued occupation, on Israel as much as on the West Bank. Says Emmanual Sivan, a professor of Islamic history at Jerusalem's Hebrew University: "For the generation of Israelis in their 20s, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: West Bank: The Cruelest Conflict | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

Jaws 2 does have a few things in common with its illustrious forebear. It cost tons of money, is set around Amity (a.k.a. Martha's Vineyard), has a score by John Williams and stars a rather petulant shark. Roy Scheider, looking unaccountably like George C. Scott after a hunger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Overbite | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

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