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...also scanned the hair for all elements heavier than magnesium, but found no consistent patterns that could explain the Legionnaires' poisoning...

Author: By Gizela M. Gonzalez, | Title: Harvard Doctors Baffled By Legionnaires' Disease | 10/23/1976 | See Source »

...Boston ever had a quarterback quite like the Kansan. Against the Steelers, he refused to be intimidated by Dwight White, 50 Ibs. heavier, who mocked him after a play lost yardage. A cool Grogan stuck a warning fist into White's back. "Aw, I wouldn't hit anyone," says Grogan. "They're bigger than I am. But I am a little faster, though." A little faster has made a big difference in Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Just Doing What I Know Best' | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

After a second exchange of punts, with the rain getting heavier by the minute, Cornell got a well-deserved break...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: BIG RED STUNS HARVARD, 9-3 | 10/9/1976 | See Source »

...kind of pleasure of limited responsibility," muses Francois Truffaut, 44, considering his film role in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Having coped with heavier duties as a director (Jules and Jim, The Story of Adele H.), Truffaut is now appearing in his first American movie as an actor, under the direction of Steven Spielberg, 28, Hollywood's hottest prodigy (Jaws). The new film, which depicts an encounter between earthlings and extraterrestrial beings, is being shot in elaborate secrecy at an abandoned Air Force hangar in Mobile, Ala. So far the secrecy seems to suit Spielberg just fine. "Directing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 30, 1976 | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

...Matthes, a skinny (155 lbs.) six-footer, Montreal represents a last chance to add to his stockpile of seven Olympic medals, four of them gold, collected in 1968 and 1972. His challenger is John Naber, five years Matthes'junior, half a foot taller, 40 lbs. heavier and a record smasher himself. At last month's U.S. swim trials at Long Beach, Naber, a senior at U.S.C., toppled by 1.23 sec. the 200-meter backstroke world record of 2:01.87, held since 1973 by-that's right-Roland Matthes. In the 100 meters, Naber finished a mere half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: TRY FOR A LAST HURRAH | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

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