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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first week and then began to strike out. His collapse was awful to watch. Fortunately for him, not too many people came out to the park to look. Other "next Mickey Mantle" prototypes were Roger Repo, Bill Robinson and Bobby Murcer. But Whitaker handled the pressure worst. I kept his autograph on my wall long after he disappeared from the majors. I admit it's cheap mentioning that, but it's true...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: Back in the Ballpark | 10/8/1976 | See Source »

Carter began a discussion of "morality" by saying the secrecy involved in foreign policy decisions has kept the "character of the American people" from being expressed in foreign policy...

Author: By David Beach, | Title: Carter, Ford Clash on Foreign Policy | 10/7/1976 | See Source »

From then until the intermission, Harvard took complete control of the game and kept steady pressure on UMass's inner defense. After 20 minutes of muffed opportunities, Acorn finally rammed home the rebound of an Eaton shot off a long feed by fullback Kevin Jiggetts. Harvard led at the half...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Crimson Booters Destroy UMass, 4-2 | 10/6/1976 | See Source »

Brian Buckley, a highly-recruited High School All-America quarterback is on the team, but so far the unheralded St. John has kept him on the bench. As halftime neared, St. John showed how he's done it, hitting four straight aerials for 63 yards and another score. The conversion was again muffed...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Freshman Gridders Bomb Tufts, 27-13 | 10/5/1976 | See Source »

...cute nickname. Resurrecting names and places from old clippings, conducting new interviews with survivors, Allen has, in effect, retracked the storm. There is the occasionally odd and saving incident. In New Jersey, 60 colonies of beavers manned their dams in Palisades Park and, in the process of saving themselves, kept down the flooding of 42,000 acres of nearby land and highways. But mostly Allen's story is a sequence of unremitting havoc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blow by Blow | 10/4/1976 | See Source »

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