Word: eras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...secret that Joe Restic just does not have the horses this year to qualify as a bonafide preseason Ivy League title favorite. Harvard comes off its first losing season (4-5) in the Restic era, and eight spots in the lineup--both defensive ends, both defensive tackles, one linebacker, punter, center and fullback--have been ravaged like Vietnamese free fire zones...
Larry Brown lost his only game of the year, 1-0 to Delaware in a rain-shortened six-inning game called after a six-hour rain delay. Brownie's 10-1 slate and second-in-the-nation ERA (just under 1.00) earned him third-team All-American honors, though. And lefty slugger Mike Stenhouse earned a berth on the first-team All-American squad for his record-busting year...
Though all the Sisters' sales are more than double those in the embargo year of 1973, when the cheap-oil era ended, only three of the companies earned more profit last year than they did then: Shell, Mobil and California Standard (SoCal), which markets under its Chevron Trademark. And none but SoCal has regained the peaks of 1974, when soaring prices gave them a one-shot windfall by raising the value of petroleum they held in inventory. The later profits from price boosts have gone primarily to the OPEC nationalizes of the oil. But the companies have done...
...Playboy Enterprises, Inc.: "Playboy is clearly a major factor in the sexual revolution. And clearly the social-sexual revolution is related to the women's movement." Nor were the feminists shy about accepting Hef's hospitality. Said Burke: "The people we have to get to support ERA are some of Hefner's constituents." Apparently his money doesn't hurt, either: his party netted...
...imperial Russia. His comic vignettes about the early days of his country's film industry are reminiscent of old-time Hollywood lore, right down to the portrayal of temperamental screenwriters and cost-conscious producers. Slave even has a character who is a Russian equivalent of American Silent-Era Star John Gilbert: a dashing leading man whose speaking voice is disconcertingly high-pitched...