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...Cardinals are not just a one-man team, however. Their balanced attack against L.S.U. included 16 points from Wiley Brown, 13 from Derek Smith and 12 from freshman center Rodney McCray, who seems to get better in every game...

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: Four on the Floor | 3/21/1980 | See Source »

Alec McCowen, British actor, on how he settled on the subject of his prizewinning one-man stage presentation, The Gospel According to St. Mark: "This was the greatest script I had ever found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 10, 1980 | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

...some ways, the post-Tito era appeared to have already begun. The complex machinery of succession, based on a collective rather than one-man leadership, had automatically gone into effect following Tito's hospitalization. At the head of the nine-member committee-like State Presidency was current Vice President Lazar Koliševski, 66, a mild-mannered Macedonian who would become the country's first interim President upon Tito's death. He would serve until May, when another committee member would take over. Tito's functions as party chief were carried out by the current chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Quiet Vigil for a Falling Hero | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

...five-point spree started by the technical left the Crimson on the short end of a 57-46 count with 3:18 to go. It was a deficit the Crimson could not overcome as Melville continued his one-man destruction act, dealing Harvard its seventh Ivy League loss against four wins...

Author: By Mark D. Director, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Officials Snap Technicals on Harvard; Tigers Cage 68-56 Lackluster Win | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...oddly schizophrenic. They ride players into the boards and forecheck -an oafish game. On offense, on the other hand, they strive -when they can remember their orders-to practice pinpoint passing. The weakness of this hybrid approach showed up in a big game against the Czechs. With a one-man advantage after a Czech penalty, the Americans got too clever by half: they fecklessly passed the puck back and forth for 1 min. 40 sec., until time ran out. All the while, Brooks was screaming, "Shoot! Shoooot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Only the Lake Was Placid | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

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