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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about a minute until substitute guard Mike Griffin was fouled. Griffin converted two free throws to give Harvard a 66-63 lead. Sophomore guard Tim van Blommesteyn came back to hit a short jumper for Princeton to narrow the gap to one, but Griffin returned the ball and drove in for a layup, giving the Crimson a 68-65 lead with 2.45 left. Tiger center Andy Rimol hit a jumper from the foul line, bringing the Tigers back to within...

Author: By Douglas E. Schoen, | Title: Penn Downs Crimson Cagers In Close Contest | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

Harvard again tried to stall but Griffin lost the ball to van Bloommesteyn who hit Ted Manakas on a fast break. Manakas drove and put the Tigers ahead 69-68 with a lay-up. James Brown came back to put the Crimson up by one with a jump shot, but Manakas hit a 10 foot jumper to give the Tigers a 71-70 lead with 51 seconds left...

Author: By Douglas E. Schoen, | Title: Penn Downs Crimson Cagers In Close Contest | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

Captain Robert G. Certain, 25, a B-52 navigator, was due to fly home from Guam for Christmas on Dec. 20. The day before, an officer from Andrews Air Force Base drove to the Washington, D.C., office of Certain's father, a labor-relations director for the Southern Railway System, identified himself and said: "I regret to inform you that your son is missing in action in North Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: P.O.W.s: Christmas in Hanoi | 1/1/1973 | See Source »

...flyer was known to have been killed, 38 Air Force crewmen were reported missing. Randolph passed along the news of each casualty to the Air Force unit nearest the home town of the next of kin. The officer assigned to the duty called for a blue staff car and drove off to deliver the news in person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: P.O.W.s: Christmas in Hanoi | 1/1/1973 | See Source »

...last Apollo mission will probably turn out to be the best. During their record 22 hours outside their moonship, Cernan and Schmitt collected some 250 lbs. of lunar rocks, more than any of the ten moonwalkers before them. They set up the moon's fifth scientific station and drove their battery-powered rover across 22.5 miles of the cratered valley. They took more than 2,000 photographs, and turned up what may well be the first positive evidence of relatively recent volcanic activity on the moon. Said Schmitt, the first scientist to walk the moon: "This valley has seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Apollo 17: A Grand Finale | 12/25/1972 | See Source »

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