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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PRINCETON, N. J., March 6-Harvard's Fernando Gonzalez defeated a fluridden Mason Gerhart of Penn in the opening round of the Intercollegiate Six-Man Team Squash Championships here today to give the Crimson a slim lead in the tournament, being played on the Jadwin Courts...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Racquetmen Barely Ahead After End Of First Round | 3/7/1979 | See Source »

...many months can invoke a state of perplexed ennui in even the most sanguine of computer phone users. Danray, a Texas-based communications firm that was acquired last year by Canada's Northern Telecom, installed a PBX system two months ago at AMF headquarters in White Plains, N. Y. Reports one AMF employee: "The new system has its problems. We have trouble with connections, and quite often calls don't get through. I often can't get my husband on the phone, and he works just across the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Phonomania and Future Talk | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...Clash offers visions of a rock-'n 'roll apocalypse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Best Gang in Town | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...Clash assaults some familiar enemies (cops, narcs, soldiers and teachers), the group has no safe targets - not even themselves. Cheapskate is a bit of ironic bemusement about rock stardom, both its perks ("Just because we're in a group you think we're stinking rich/ 'N' we all got model girls shedding every stitch") and its permanence ("I'll get out my money and make a bet/ That I'll be seeing you down the launderette"). A fever-blister rocker called Safe European Home concerns the lads' attempts to seek out some brothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Best Gang in Town | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...stuff," sneers Strummer, but Jones may cut a little closer when he recalls the title of his school song, Servants of the State to Be. "It was the high hope that you would become a civil servant," he says. "That was the best you could do. But rock 'n' roll changed the way I look at society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Best Gang in Town | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

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