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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glad to see the paper back because a lot of Times readers will buy nothing else," James Finn, supervisor of the stand said yesterday. While he declined to release any circulation figures, Finn said the sale of the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal did not match the daily sale of Times before the strike, which began August...

Author: By David E. Sanger, | Title: Newsstands Sell Times Rapidly As Readers Hail End of Strike | 11/8/1978 | See Source »

About 75 people watched the Kennedy School ARCO Forum's giant sized television screen last night as it displayed the latest results of the various nationwide races with the impact of a closed circuit boxing match...

Author: By Joshua I. Goldhaber, | Title: Panelists Discuss Elections At Kennedy School's Forum | 11/8/1978 | See Source »

...final pairing was set up by a variety of preliminary match-ups. In Friday's opening round, Princeton won by default over a no-show Cornell eleven, and Yale eked out a 2-1 win over Dartmouth on a sudden-death penalty kick following two overtime periods...

Author: By Thomas H. Green iii, | Title: Women Booters Zap Brown for Ivy League Title | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

Unfortunately, railway operations are no match for the African right of way.Three hours out of Dar, our express came to an abrupt halt; it had killed a young giraffe that had wandered out of the savannah. An hour was lost as the crew replaced a broken brake hose, while passengers crowded around the carcass to gawk and hack off chunks of meat. At Mkushi, one of the many Zambian bush towns that have been revitalized by the railway, we waited for two more hours under a broiling sun. Our engineer and conductor lost an argument with station controllers over whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZAMBIA: The Great Railway Disaster | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...Western Europe, 13.7 in Japan, a mere 10 in the Soviet Union. U.S. agriculture feeds people well and cheaply too. The average American intake of more than 3,000 calories per day is among the highest in the world, and though citizens of some other nations match the U.S. in calories, probably none do in variety of diet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New American Farmer | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

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