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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shortly thereafter, Lee Nelson got tangled up with an opponent, broke free with the ball, and fed it downfield to Harvard's big gun, co-captain Lyman Bullard. An official broke up the play, calling the ball back for a Crimson free kick. The official thought even less of Nelson's comments than he thought of the play, and sent the Crimson booter off the field to join Bowyer in exile...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Wesleyan Edges Crimson Booters, 2-1 | 10/1/1976 | See Source »

...When we (immigrants) came over we didn't expect to be taken care of, fed from the golden calf," Jack says, and Bernie notes that Teddy Kennedy has inverted his brother's 'Ask not...' philosophy. Jack figures while he's in town he might get in touch with Jesse Jackson, whom he admires for what he sees as his anti--handout mentality. Both delegates feel blacks should be included in the party so as to broaden its base, but, as the events of the week soon prove, these views go unheeded...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: The Soap Box, The Ballot Box, The Jury Box and The Cartridge Box | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

Equally important are the vigorous efforts by Southern states to lure businessmen fed up with high taxes, physical decay and demanding unions in the old urban centers of the North. Georgia, for example, working with information supplied by its Chamber of Commerce, zeroes in on "suspect companies," which are feeling the pain of ever deeper tax bites in the North. Once a year about 35 executives are given a lavish "red carpet" tour of the state. Each tour brings an average of $50 million in capital investment and 1,000 new jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BOOM: Surging to Prosperity | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...fashioned out of these points and lines, Appel and Haken concluded that no matter how complex the map was, it had to contain at least one of 1,936 basic forms-or, in the jargon that helps keep mathematics mysterious, reducible configurations-that they had identified. Then they fed the forms into a computer and asked, in effect, whether all possible maps containing these configurations could indeed be made with only four colors. The electronic brain wrestled with the question for some 1,200 hours, during which it made some 10 billion separate, logical decisions. Finally the machine replied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Eureka! | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

...incumbent, who faces a not-too-serious primary challenge from moderate Republican Congressman Peter Peyser, is no pushover. Thoughtful and engaging, he will base his campaign on the belief that voters are fed up with Government interference in so many aspects of their lives-just what his Democratic opponents want to increase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Scar Tissue All Over the Place' | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

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