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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American Conference, sported an identical record. Throughout the 28-team league, with the season nearly three-fourths over, the standings are closer than at any time since the 1970 merger with the American Football League. Before this week's action, only Los Angeles and Pittsburgh had managed to open modest leads in their divisions-two games. The Pack was back in contention, rekindling memories of the Vince Lombardi era in Green...
...super-reporter is at his best describing locales and the means travelers use to get from one to another. His chronicle of a voyage in an umiak, an open skin-covered Eskimo craft, from Nome to a fragment of rock called King Island, is a masterpiece of terse narrative and clinical observation. Without wasting a diphthong, Roueche captures the look and feeling of the gray ice-choked sea, the pleasant bite of whisky and the new taste of muktuk, or whale fat: "The blubber looked like a block of cheese-pale pink cheese with a thick black rind...
Randy J. Fertel, a graduate student in English, said yesterday the new positions of the administrators might make them "more open to challenges," but he was unsure whether the reorganization constituted any significant change...
With the teams three aside and open ice cheap, some persistent forechecking paid off for Harvard with just under six minutes...
Harvard took advantage of wide-open play to get back into the game. George Hughes picked up his first goal of the year at 3:36 when he converted the rebound of a McDonald slapshot. Firmly planted just outside the crease, Hughes had only to swat the puck about six inches to put Harvard on the board...