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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when the Miracle of 1969 arrived, and the New York Mets won the World Series, he, like the team and like the city, viewed it with the same combination of astonishment, wonder, and joy. And in the post semi-miracle-of-1973 malaise, he oozed the frustration, if not the anger, of every Met...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: A Season of Change | 3/16/1979 | See Source »

...first question, and one that one cannot escape, is should companies withdraw from South Africa? By companies I mean U.S. companies with South African operations. The answer to this question should, I think, be yes, unless the following two conditions are met...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Debate | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

Anyway, or so the story goes, St. Pat plucked a shamrock from a rock crevice to explain the concept of the Christian trinity to three Irish princesses he met one day. Their local deity, it turns out, was a kind of triple-split personality himself, so the ladies went for the idea right away. In fact they became the first Irish runs...

Author: By Sally Mcgillis and Billy Mckibben, S | Title: St. Patrick Comes to Southie | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

...those of their clients-top secret. At Rich's Park Avenue offices in Manhattan, backroom telephone trading operations are conducted behind locked doors that are electronically controlled by a receptionist at the front desk. Queries to most U.S. trading offices from potential new buyers or sellers are generally met with a surprised "How did you get our name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: The Hustling Price Gougers | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

Eventually Williams returned to San Francisco, where he hung around the city's small comedy clubs. While tending bar, he met a dancer named Valerie Valardi, whom he married last June. Valerie urged him to try the clubs in Los Angeles; she helped catalogue his material and shape his act. Once Williams had played Los Angeles' Comedy Store and Improvisation, he began to get TV work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Manic of Ork: Robin Williams | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

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