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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BEFORE I learned that professional wrestling matches were crooked. I could never understand why the wrestlers fought or why the audience watched. As well as I could determine, each wrestler challenged the other-probably a stranger-with no motive other than a passionate, competitive desire to dump the other guy on his head and keep him there. For the audience, there was only the thrill of a dirty punch, and some half-hearted speculation on an obvious outcome. When I discovered, however, that the men in the ring were getting paid to perform, and that the audience knew what...

Author: By Puil Lebowitz, | Title: The Theatregoer Jungle of Cities at the Charies Playhouse through March 15 | 3/13/1970 | See Source »

...City Dump...

Author: By M. DAVID Landau, | Title: OG AND CP Explores Cambridge Dump For Lost Papers | 3/11/1970 | See Source »

After sifting through the Cambridge dump with two City bulldozers and four University groundsmen for three hours Thursday afternoon, Fox gave the files up for lost...

Author: By M. DAVID Landau, | Title: OG AND CP Explores Cambridge Dump For Lost Papers | 3/11/1970 | See Source »

Will the University News Office dump 15 boxes of press releases outside University Hall in the dark of night, each release with an eight-by-ten glossy photograph of one of the members of the Corporation? (Kiddies: Be the first on your block to collect the whole set! "OK, Johnny, I'll give you two Calkinses for a Burr, but if you get Blum before I do so help...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Rites of Spring Kissing Off The Interim | 3/4/1970 | See Source »

...conservative comment may have been overly hopeful. After losing to Dartmouth, 10-6, at New Haven last Saturday, the Elis mired themselves even more deeply in the Ivy League's sixth place, and a loss to weak Princeton this week-which is not unlikely at this point-would dump Yale into the cellar...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Elis and Tigers Competing For Last Place in Hockey | 2/12/1970 | See Source »

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