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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hozack's first-period tally 11 seconds before the buzzer had given Harvard the initial advantage, but the oldest Wilson set matters straight with a slap shot from the, right point after a non-Crimson clear at 2:23 of the second period...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Too Many Wilsons Ruin Opener for Icemen, 5-4 | 12/2/1976 | See Source »

...years ago. "I rang her up, as fellow publishers tend to do," he recalls, "told her I was in town and would like to have a look at her plant." It was love at first sight. "I lusted after the Post," he says. So had many others. The oldest continuously published daily in the U.S., the Post (circ. 500,000) has been the only afternoon paper in the nation's largest city since 1967-but Dolly Schiff had failed to make the most of it, editorially or financially. Last week Murdoch plucked the unripened plum. He waltzed Dolly into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Goodbye Dolly, Hello Rupert | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

...only black member of the Federal Communications Commission, know better. Hooks, 51, is a shrewd, articulate spokesman for his race. His country cover was probably blown for good when he was named this month to succeed Roy Wilkins as executive director of the N.A.A.C.P., the country's oldest civil rights organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: N.A.A.C.P.'s Country Preacher | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

Frazzled Nerves. The general reluctance to leave the center of power is perhaps most clearly seen in the refusal of one of Gerald Ford's oldest friends and closest aides to do so. After only two years in the capital, White House Counsel Philip Buchen finds it impossible to return to the placid life of his (and Ford's) old home town of Grand Rapids. "It's awfully hard to go home again after living here," says Buchen. "This is a very supercharged atmosphere. When you go back after having a taste of this life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Why Georgetown Has the Jitters | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

Hillier's remarkable weight loss is the result not of some new dieting fad but of the oldest, surest and quickest way to get rid of excess fat: fasting. Along with others afflicted with severe obesity, he had enrolled in a pioneering fasting clinic at Cleveland's Mount Sinai Hospital. Except for a powdery mix of mainly alanine (an amino acid) and glucose that is taken with water or diet drinks, patients at the clinic eat nothing whatsoever for weeks and months at a time, starving off their pounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dieting by Starving | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

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