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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past decade. Instead, the outcome of the three-way race seemed certain to aggravate the tension. The final tally will not be completed until July, but according to unofficial results, President Arnold Miller squeaked to a second five-year term with 40% of the vote. His archrival, Lee Roy Patterson, an influential member of the union's 21-member executive board, took 34%; U.M.W. Secretary-Treasurer Harry Patrick, a Miller friend turned foe, picked up 26%. And only half the 277,000 active and retired miners who were eligible to vote bothered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: No Peace in the Pits | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

...great team by any means (its 20 losses by far the most amongst the final eight), the Diabalos entered the Far Western Regionals against powerful USC, the dominant force in modern college baseball (and not without a small impact on the major leagues: Fred Lynn and Bill Lee would certainly come to mind in Boston). The Trojans had inflicted 7-0 and 15-2 poundings on Cal State in their earlier encounters...

Author: By Mike Kennedy, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: College World Series: Of Devils and Phantoms | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

Screenplay by JAMES LEE BARRETT, CHARLES SHYER and ALAN MANDEL

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fun on the Farm | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

Coaches have come to accept the fact that they will not get their entire list accepted every year, he says. Lee, like most of the coaches, says the committee does a good job. Still, some coaches seem to be able to get a higher percentage of their lists accepted than others. No coach will admit to bureaucratic politicking to gain favor with the committee; in fact, Restic notes, "I don't sense any of that--the committee has always been very fair." But as Lee says, "The sports that get more publicity, you expect to have more clout with admissions...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Body-hunting at Harvard | 6/16/1977 | See Source »

...with the death of the emperor Ch'ien-lung. Everything else was journalism," says Theodore H. White '38, the author of The Making of the President books and Thunder Out of China, who was Fairbank's first undergraduate tutee. Fairbank, who is retiring this year as Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History after 41 years on the Faculty, led the way out of that darkness, making modern China part of the American intellectual world. With a single-minded devotion that America's China missionaries would have envied, Fairbank made China, as seen from the inside out, the focus of Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fairbank Perceived: | 6/16/1977 | See Source »

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