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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Silas is the finest offensive rebounding forward the game has ever known. His four-year presence on the Celtics has resulted in two NBA titles and his character and class off the court are rare commodities in today's "kid in a candy store" type of professional athlete...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: B.S. on Sports | 10/14/1976 | See Source »

...expertise, which he is supposed to pick up on the job. Under Secretary for Economic Affairs William Rogers worked on the details of the "safety net" that is supposed to reassure white Rhodesians that majority rule will not lead them to economic ruin. Perhaps the man who had the finest feel for Africa was John Reinhardt, the Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and a former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria. Reinhardt is black, and while some cynics suspected that this was the reason he had been taken along, his advice proved to be invaluable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Boys on the Plane | 10/4/1976 | See Source »

...Beverly, along the North Shore, Sandy's Jazz Revival is keeping up its summer reputation as the finest showcase of left-over Duke Ellington and Count Basie stars. This week it's Helen Humes, the Count's vocalist, through Saturday. She just finished a long engagement at the Cookery in New York...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: jazz | 9/30/1976 | See Source »

...past ten years, some 1,150 golf courses have been built in the South, where some of the finest tournaments -including the Masters-are held every year. With a vast expanse of coastline (2,911 miles), an abundance of streams and a proliferation of man-made lakes, upcountry and coastal folk alike have as much access to water sports-fishing, boating, diving, skiing-as fabled Californians (about one-third of all the nation's outboard motors are owned by Southerners). Forest-product firms that have made loblolly pine a prime component of pulp and paper have also greened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: The Good Life | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...very quiet and unpublicized move last winter, Donald Byker, assistant director of Expository Writing, cropped from Harvard's only required course an option which some believe to have been one of the finest and most rigorous basic writing programs in the University. Student course evaluations had been good and Byker had never expressed any dissatisfaction with the course. So when he handed the three teachers of Expos 14, "Editorial, Feature, and News Writing," letters notifying them that the journalism course was being eliminated from the curriculum, it came as a surprise...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: Scuttling Journalism at Harvard | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

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