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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LINEBACKER--Eli captain Bill Crowley gets defensive player of the year honors, and Columbia gets its only first-teamer in there with Mike McGraw. Jim Molnar had over 100 tackles for Penn, but Penn keeps bogus tackling stats--Molnar will have to join Brown's John Woodring, Dartmouth's Joe Nastri, Princeton's Andy Hvidston and Cornell's Jim DeStefano on the second squad...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: It's All-Ivy Time | 11/28/1978 | See Source »

...they have the true message and all others must be frauds and charlatans. This leaves little more than a small lunatic fringe in defense of the cults; Mark Lane, famous for conjuring conspiracies and playing games with committees attempting real investigations into recent U.S. political assassinations, was busy defending Jim Jones of the People's Temple when all hell broke loose in Guyana...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Mantras and Mandalas | 11/28/1978 | See Source »

Still unknown was the fate of the cult's flamboyant founder, Jim Jones, 47. A white civil rights activist and Marxist, he started building a largely black congregation in the late 1960s. A few years later, he ruled a string of communes from Los Angeles to Vancouver. Rigidly disciplined, they turned out diligent workers on election day to help Democratic candidates. In gratitude, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone appointed Jones chairman of the San Francisco Housing Authority in 1975, and many of the cultists were placed in city and county jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Cult Massacre | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

Fittingly enough, it was the vaunted Dallas scouting system that turned up Jim Zorn. Passed over in the draft after playing for tiny California Poly-Pomona, he was signed as a free agent, then cut by the Cowboys in 1975. He was quickly snatched up by Seattle when the franchise opened the following year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Upstarts and Upsets in the N.F.L. | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...Seattle Seahawks' spectacular young (25) quarterback, Jim Zorn, has passed, run, pushed and dragged his expansion team into the third best offense in the N.F.L. In eleven games this year, Zorn passed for ten touchdowns and ran for six more. With careful use of the draft and a few deft trades, Seattle has put together a supporting cast that does Zorn justice. Wide Receiver Steve Largent ranks second among American Conference receivers, behind Pittsburgh's Lynn Swann; with ten touchdowns, David Sims is the conference's top-scoring running back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Upstarts and Upsets in the N.F.L. | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

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