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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moment of bravado spurred by another Sports Illustrated article which appeared just after the Los Angeles race and still leaned toward Penn, Dave Higgins '69, Bow man on the team said, "If we would have known there would be so much garbage about Four Inches (the margin of victory) we would have beaten them by a foot...

Author: By Ronald H. Janis, | Title: Crew Members Say They Thought More About Penn Than Olympics | 7/23/1968 | See Source »

...benches outside of Holyoke Center, in the little park known as Forbes Plaza, are off limits to all after 6 p.m. That means hippies, and men in three-piece suits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Please Do Not Sit on the Bench; This Property Belongs to Harvard | 7/23/1968 | See Source »

...come for the Who and when the MC announced that they would be a "few minutes late" the groans quickly gave way to resignation. The crowd might not have behaved so impeccably if it had known the full extent of the delay that was in store...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: The Who | 7/23/1968 | See Source »

H.P.B.-as she is known to her followers-was a large and lusty adventuress who rolled her own cigarettes, gave birth to at least one illegitimate son, and stage-managed seances to "prove" her claims to supernatural powers. Granddaughter of a Russian princess, she was married off to a czarist general at the age of 16, but deserted him after three months and eventually showed up in Cairo as a psychic medium. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1874, she took up with a former Civil War staff colonel named Henry Steel Olcott, persuaded him to help her found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theosophy: Cult of the Occult | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

Died. Dusty Boggess, 64, one of baseball's best-known men in blue during 19 years as a National League umpire; in Dallas. A burly, rubber-faced Texan, Boggess was the target of one of the game's more notable rhubarbs-on July 4, 1945, when he thumbed out the Brooklyn Dodgers' Leo Durocher, bringing down such a rain of missiles that cops had to hustle him from the field. His peers, however, rated him high enough to ump five All-Star games and four World Series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 19, 1968 | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

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