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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's Ed Gazvoda and Phills both notched pins. Gazvoda faced off against Mike "the Masked Marvel" Alexander, putting the less talented grappler to the mat with repeated takedowns before engulfing him in a cradle for the pin. Phills eyed Terry Eastman for less than a minute before levelling him with an upper body toss...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Grapplers Flatten Wesleyan, Level Bridgewater State Team | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Toys, not pets, are the mainstay of the holiday season, and New York's Hammacher-Schlemmer has several playthings for adults like a $49.95 astrological computer. Punch in your birth date, and this marvel of technological wizardry provides you with a personal horoscope and tells you what your personality traits...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: All I Want for Christmas......Is A Blimp or Two | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...multiflex marvel called for halfback Jon Hollingsworth to fake up the middle and cut off the linebacker while captain Mike Brown and the tight end took care of Yale's nose-guard and the wing back, respectively. Once the defense was sealed up the middle, Callinan could follow tackle Mike Durgin through the center for an almost guaranteed gain...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Callinan Charges Harvard Offense | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...appealing but not very confident young woman who regards herself as quite ordinary. To the love-sotted Charles she is Cleopatra, and that is part of the problem. Each of them is unstrung, he by the crazy intensity of his love, she by his insistence that she is a marvel among women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rah! Rah! Rah!? | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Plainly, a world that feeds on such impenetrable figures suffers a peculiar compulsion that might be called googolmania The hunger is, whatever else, a marvel to behold, providing the spectacle of a species unable to solve a 13% inflation rate, yet eager to be informed by the Guinness Book of World Records that the world weighs 6,585,600,000,000,000,000,000 tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Getting Dizzy by the Numbers | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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