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Ranked twelfth in the nation by a preseason poll, Coach Park's team will tour Southern colleges and minor league teams over the spring vacation. With a myriad of outstanding batters, Park wants to play as many games as possible and experiment with different players at most positions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Nine Has Hitters; Pitching Is Question Mark | 3/25/1969 | See Source »

...complex of nine state farms and dozens of villages, all manned by penal' labor. A former prisoner there recalls the climate as terrible: temperatures hovering around 40° below zero in winter and soaring to a humid 95° in summer. During the warm seasons, mosquitoes from the myriad swamps of the area forced prisoners to wear long-sleeved jackets and full-length trousers despite the heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Where China and Russia Meet | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

Genevieve Austin, dean of residence at Radcliffe, said during the South Houses panel that she sees coeducational living as simply another housing alternative. Ann V. Bastian '70, a member of the East House panel, said "The richness of Harvard is in its myriad options. This is just another way of extending the options...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jr. Parents Discuss 'Cliffe Identity | 3/17/1969 | See Source »

Ogden Corp.'s Ralph Ablon wanted to expand into housing construction. He simply phoned Los Angeles Architect Charles Luckman, whom he had never met, and proposed a discussion. Luckman flew to New York. In just two hours over lunch at Manhattan's 21 Club, where myriad American mergers are made, Luckman agreed to join Ogden in exchange for common stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE CONGLOMERATES' WAR TO RESHAPE INDUSTRY | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

...myriad imitators of television's Meet The Press were to be given a generic name, they might well be called Spivaks (after Lawrence, the host, of course). This year yet another species of the genus Spivak - the Novak, it might be labeled - was launched on 15 Metromedia TV and radio stations and eight public-TV channels. Titled The Evans-Novak Report, the program is run by a regular two-man press panel, Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak. Unlike most of the other spin-offs from Meet The Press, it does offer at least one new wrinkle: during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newscasting: The Empty-Chair Approach | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

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