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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resume--not that he needs to have one, mind you--is simply awesome. Ivy titles in 1969, '76 and '77, and the NIT title in 1974. Upset wins versus North Carolina (a 16-pointer, with McAdoo and Jones playing for the opposition), Notre Dame, South Carolina, Oregon, Providence, Alabama, et al. First-round draft picks the likes of Geoff Petrie, John Hummer, Brian Taylor and Armond Hill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pete Carril Keeps on Pluggin' | 2/18/1978 | See Source »

...music next Wednesday. The BSO is presenting open rehearsals for the twentieth consecutive year, and the second of the season is February 22 at 7:30. Pianist Alexis Weissenberg performs Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 with Seiji Ozawa conducting; also on the program are Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales and his La Valse. This rehearsal promises to be exciting and enjoyable, and it should not be missed. Weissenberg is one of the premier technicians and artists of the day and Rachmaninoff's Third Concerto one of the most challenging works of all time. The combination...

Author: By Richard Kreindler, | Title: A Chang of Pace | 2/16/1978 | See Source »

...swimmers who will be challenging Hackett et al Saturday at 2 p.m. hail from an Ivy League school in an industrial state south of New York. Please send your answers to the "Name the State Contest" c/o this newspaper, Anywhere...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: Basketball for the Beflued and Befuddled | 2/16/1978 | See Source »

JACKSON BROWNE may well be the prototypical Southern California rock and roll star. Like the rest of the L.A. pop crowd, he's known for squeaky-clean vocals, introspection run rampant, a reliance on the studio pit crew of J.D. Souther, and Eagles Don Henley, Glenn Frey et al, and an obsession with The Road. The latter has been the dominant image in his music since his second album, both as a metaphor for change and a literal determinant of modern life. "Take It Easy" and "The Road and the Sky," from his second and third albums respectively, were...

Author: By Bill Barol, | Title: Angst on Wheels | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...Wynn, who issued 1 ,775 passes in his 23-year career. (He also struck out 2,334 batters.) Many encyclopediasts pass the winter months compiling their own alltime, all-star teams. Unfortunately, most of the casts are depressingly alike: Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Cy Young, et al. Recently, however, the book has supplied names for more unique aggregations. The latest off-season base ball game consists of compiling teams with players related by name rather than achievement. There is the all-animal team: "Spider" Jorgensen, "Rabbit" Maranville, Jimmy Foxx. The all-color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Looking It Up | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

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