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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Blood crafted a masterpiece yesterday, making a number of clutch punches out of the Crimson goal area, and a few tough saves on Williams crosses...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Booters Run Winning String to Three As Mogollon Registers Lone Marker | 10/24/1979 | See Source »

According to the lamas and to state tradition, this was still insufficient proof of the child's identity. For a more definitive test, the monks placed several of the deceased Dalai Lama's personal possessions before the boy, along with an equal number of skillfully-wrought replicas. The child chose the right item every time. Finally, the lamas examined the child for the eight birthmarks that reputedly identify the Dalai Lama. From large protruding ears and marks like a tiger's skin on his legs to two vestigal bits of skin on his shoulders representing the third and fouth arms...

Author: By Elizabeth E. Ryan, | Title: Hello Dalai | 10/24/1979 | See Source »

...number of students in introductory computer courses has vastly increased, Denise D. Williamson '82, a terminal watcher at the Science Center, said yesterday. Even so, crowding on the terminals so far has gone down slightly, she added...

Author: By Maggi-meg Reed, | Title: Leverett, Currier to Install Terminals | 10/24/1979 | See Source »

Williamson said that the number of terminal watchers working at the Science Center has doubled this year so that two are on call for every shift in the terminal room...

Author: By Maggi-meg Reed, | Title: Leverett, Currier to Install Terminals | 10/24/1979 | See Source »

...Cambridge political maxim holds that any increase in the number of voters will aid pro-rent control candidates. That hypothesis may be slowly turning to myth as more condominium owners populate the city, but for now there are simply more tenants than landlords in Cambridge...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: City Voter Registration Shows Jump | 10/23/1979 | See Source »

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