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...believe that the solution to problems of old age, generation gaps, etc., is very simple-at least in part. If everyone over 35 would cultivate friendships with people ten or fifteen years younger, they would have lots of friends when they were old. The trouble is that most people stick to their own generation, and in later years most of their friends are dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 25, 1973 | 6/25/1973 | See Source »

...Crimson batmen have placed five men on the fifteen-man 1973 Greater Boston League all-star team. Northeastern, which finished second to Harvard in the league standings, also had five players picked for the squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Batmen Place Five On the 1973 GBL All League Squad | 5/25/1973 | See Source »

...fortune. Laurel is slightly unbalanced (sensitive, if you prefer), and at first it seems she might have vanished in reaction to an oil slick formed by the family company's offshore drilling operation. Then her father receives a ransom call, which would suggest this is a kidnapping. But fifteen years ago, Laurel was involved in a similar kidnapping which, it turns out, she masterminded herself to extort money from her parents...

Author: By Arthur H. Lubow, | Title: Double, Double, Oil And Trouble | 5/17/1973 | See Source »

...Band. I bought their first album in the basement record department of the JJ Newberry's in Plymouth, New Hampshire. I'm not sure why. It could have been a lark, or it could have been the cover, one of the first of the psychedelic era, and I was fifteen. The five-man Steve Miller Band, with Moby Grape are still the only Hashbury era rock bands I can tolerate over repeated listenings. Miller broke up that band, in favor of a trio, at the musical instant when trios went totally out of fashion. He rode back into the mainstream...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pop | 4/26/1973 | See Source »

...also the second time in two decisions that the Corporation followed the recommendation of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), the fifteen-member student-faculty-alumni group President Bok set up last Fall...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Harvard Backs Namibian Freedom | 4/21/1973 | See Source »

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