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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before hordes of jubilant, hoarse fans could run through the corridors of Boston Garden screaming, alternately, "We're Number One!" and "We're really gonna do it, the Cup is coming back!," before a few hundred of them could scale the plexiglass and mob their heroes, and before the cheering masses could spill happily onto Causeway St., the Bruins had to win a hockey game last night...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: Bruins Blast Canadiens, 5-2, Force Deciding Seventh Game | 5/9/1979 | See Source »

Sophomore Don Pompan, the number one player on the Harvard tennis team, was walking past Leverett House one day last fall--striding purposefully, chattering non-stop to two friends, carrying a couple of organic chemistry books under his arm--when a teammate observing this scene turned and said, "You know, Don treats his whole life like it's reading period...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Don Pompan: The Harvard Tennis Team's Lively Ace | 5/9/1979 | See Source »

...unquestionably, the number one character on a tennis team that has more than its share of jokers. And his gregarious nature has earned him a team record number of nicknames--Pomps, Pompano and Donaldo, among others...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Don Pompan: The Harvard Tennis Team's Lively Ace | 5/9/1979 | See Source »

Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) officials told the Cambridge City Council last night that construction work on two Logan Airport runways will increase the number of planes flying over the city from late May to mid-July...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Airplane Noise Will Increase In Cambridge This Summer | 5/8/1979 | See Source »

Perhaps this is an ontological question, in which case you and I have something to settle. I'm sick of my social security number and political arguments. I can't make it into Studio 54 and meet Bianca Jagger. I need some shelter, some cleavage...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Street Symbolist Finds Her Ark | 5/8/1979 | See Source »

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