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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maglathlin sent the match to one final point by fighting off a match point with the tiebreaker score at 3-4. On the decisive rally, Chaikovsky returned two backhands, then decided to go for a forehand winner to his right. The gamble failed when the stroke fell no more than two inches outside the white line...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Netmen Nail Big Green, 6-3, Sending League Mark to 4-0 | 4/26/1978 | See Source »

...Vance, however, fell the responsibility for two more distant diplomatic problems that also are entering a critical stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vance: Man on the Move | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

...subjects in the experiment, all male, fell into familiar patterns. Penned up in a fancy three-story condominium for months, the subjects drank heavily at a cocktail hour just before dinner and favored nightcaps just before bed. Every three or four days they went on a group bender, then tapered off the booze until it was time for another party. Punch line: all the subjects were rats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Manly or Beastly? | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

...already said in the Bible. If races are "fallen," he reasons, they would lack the supertechnology to span the light years and make contact with each other. But Fetcho suspects that we probably are alone. To him, the Bible seems to indicate that the entire universe fell with Adam and Eve and that its redemption is connected with the work of Jesus Christ. For instance, Romans 8: 19-23 ("... we know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now"). Perhaps, Fetcho proposes, the UFOs are real but are not visits by space beings-they are, rather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dabbling in Exotheology | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

...Dartmouth quickly fell out of the race and the triple meet turned into a dual meet--with Brown and Harvard fighting it out down the wire, tied until the final event...

Author: By Ruth Kogan, | Title: Trackmen Fall By Two Points To Underrated Brown Squad | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

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