Word: easterns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Defending champion lowa State captured its fourth consecutive team crown while host University of Colorado's Mary Decker took the individual honors. Ivy-rival Princeton finished 12th in the team standings while the University of Maryland, which tied Harvard last week at the Eastern championships, grabbed ninth...
...race marked this season's third meeting between Harvard's Newnham and Sullivan and Princeton's star, Lynn Jennings. Jennings had defeated both Crimson harriers in earlier duels at the Big Three meet and at last week's Eastern Championships. Saturday she established a fast pace early, and by the two-mile mark, held a seemingly insurmountable lead...
There had already been uneasiness in parts of academe that some Middle Eastern nations, by freely spending their petrodollars to support programs at universities ranging from Georgetown to Stanford, were trying to gain undue influence in the U.S. Nonetheless, some of the resistance to the U.S.C. center seemed more emotional than anything else. Jewish Businessman Allen Ziegler, a U.S.C. alumnus,, announced that he had sent back his lifetime membership card in the Alumni Association in protest. Said Ziegler: "I wonder where they're going to put the mosque...
...amendment to the state constitution gained considerable statewide support, but it was the industrialized eastern section of Massachusetts that supplied the margin of victory. Boston voters approved the measure by 132,121 to 12,000, and Everett residents voted for Question One by the awesome margin...
While the loss to Penn was disheartening, the real disappointment came last Friday when the sixth-seeded Crimson squad was ousted from the Eastern Championships by the Big Red of Cornell, ending all possibility of travel to the nationals...