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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...season of the festival, and a festival nowadays is a protean feast. It is a group of local notables trying to put clothes on live chickens in a contest at the Hamilton County Fair near Cincinnati. It is a baseball game at the New England Clown Convention in Salem, Mass., where no one knows who won because the bases kept moving and the umpire used a fire extinguisher to settle disputes. It is Cincinnati's Don Cook, who takes pride in being able to grow an instant beard by letting bees swarm to his chin. It is 102 vintage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Summer, U.S.A. | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...Francisco, last week's nearby earthquake notwithstanding, still insists that it is the nation's best city to live in. Virginia smugly assumes the primacy of her heritage as the Mother of Presidents, even though (as North Carolinians like to note) she has not been pregnant since the 19th century. Similarly, the Midwest, beneath that humble mien, firmly believes itself to be the "true America" that many observers have christened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Local Chauvinism: Long May It Rave | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

Science students live on another planet. Their courses are incredibly rigorous; if you don't keep up with the work every week, you'll fall behind your classmates. And since the courses are graded with fancy scientific Gaussian bell curves--which rate your work not only on how good it is, but on how well others are doing--those classmates may be glad to see you falter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Life in the Academic Factory | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...additional students should not cause a housing crunch, Susan W. Lewis, assistant dean of freshmen, said yesterday. Renovations to Hurlbut Hall have added room for 16 additional students, she said. Forty-nine freshmen will live off-campus, she added...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Sex Ratio Climbs for Class of '83 | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...construction has required the dismantling of hundreds of feet of the southwest part of the brick wall surrounding Harvard Yard, where all freshmen live...

Author: By J.wyatt Emmerich, | Title: Subway Extension Project Will Take Four Years | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

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