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...night and another crammed rubbernecking day. Sixth, Shanghai. Seventh, sail for Canton. Eighth, ninth and tenth days at sea: slide shows, lectures, no chopsticks. Eleventh, arrive Canton. Temples, museums, other sights. Twelfth, by plane to beautiful Kweilin, two days. Fourteenth, back to Canton: another temple, shopping, concert. Fifteenth day, to Foshan for temples, pottery factory, têng, têng (etc., etc.). Back to Canton for fabulous final banquet. Sail for Hong Kong, waved off by 17 interpreter-guides, WARMLY SAYING GOODBYE TO LIN-BLADDERS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: The Trip by Ship | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

This sport is my favorite. I can appreciate seeing other people suffering, all of them knowing that for the next two weeks it's do or die. You're Bernie Carbo up at bat with two men on and two out. You're Muhammed Ali in the fifteenth round of his bout with Leon Spinks (almost...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: A Very Unsporting Column | 3/9/1978 | See Source »

This display was neither as effective nor as devestating as the one unleashed by Ali in his ferocious fifteenth round against Earnie Shavers in their September title bout. Yet the judges were convinced and Norton won the round...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Norton and Young Out to Corner Ali | 11/9/1977 | See Source »

Radcliffe won the race with 24 points to Tufts's 79, Brandeis's 88 and Boston University's 106. MIT and Boston College did not have the mandatory runners for official competition. The 'Cliffe added ninth, thirteenth and fifteenth places to dominate the top runners...

Author: By Peter R. Reynolds, | Title: Sullivan Breaks Record Again | 10/19/1977 | See Source »

...rest of the linksters never displayed anything close to their midseason form, as Alex Vik carded an 80 and Glenn Alexander and 84. Chris Ball and George Arnold both shot 85, as the former took harrowing penstrokes on the par-five fifteenth and the latter flailed to an 11 on the eleventh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golfers Fold at ECACs; Fitzgibbons' 73 Excels | 10/8/1977 | See Source »

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