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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...championship game, Yale, led by Brummel's 17 points, kept even through the first half, taking a slim 29-28 lead at the half. But the Tigers came on in the second half, and after Brummel and Sue Malone fouled out late in the game, Princeton stepped up their pace and dominated the finish, coasting into the title...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Princeton Tops Yale, 65-56; Wins Ivy Championship--Again | 2/14/1978 | See Source »

...City, N.J., that may contain up to 1.4 billion bbl. of oil and 9.4 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas. But a suit by New York's Suffolk County, which is worried about the impact of oilfield accidents on its $ 1 billion-a-year fishing and recreation businesses, has kept the oilmen ashore. "It's not fair," laments an oil company executive. "The Government is holding a billion dollars of our money, and we've lost a year and a half of the five years the leases give us to begin production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Setback in the Offshore Search | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

Hollywood, that chimerical land of sudden riches and happy endings, is being rocked by protests about sordid abuses in the real world. A number of stars, directors and independent producers, who had kept their mouths shut in the past for fear of jeopardizing their careers, are speaking out against the fast shuffles dealt them over the years by the studios...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Continuing Saga of Hollywoodgate | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...equipped to understand a raging natural force like Heathcliff, much less to sympathize with his condition. The greater their shock at Heathcliff s behavior, the more they condemned him, the clearer it became that Heathcliff existed on a plane beyond the grasp of normal comprehension. Emily also wisely kept the man offstage much of the time. Rumors of monsters are usually more impressive than the creatures themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: More News of the Dark Foundling | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...openers, Brown, Cornell and Barnard motioned to stay home altogether. The former sent a team to the sister tourney, the Women's Ivy League Basketball Championships at the IAB, but kept its swimmers afloat in Providence...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: 'It's Not the Meet, It's the Motion' | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

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