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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...varsity battle, Princeton drove out to a three-seat lead over the Crimson with MIT trailing the pack...

Author: By Daniel Gil and Dennis Wong, S | Title: So What's New? Crews Do it Again | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

...portable paging device about the size of a cigarette pack, the beeper is a mini-radio receiver that puts the person carrying it on instant call from of-ficerhome or anywhere else. Short-range protobeepers were used in hospitals in the early 1960s to summon doctors. Since then beepers have spread like electronic calculators-from some 33,500 in 1965 to an estimated 800,000 today, with production still growing at about 18% a year. About 500 U.S. companies now either manufacture beepers or operate beeper networks. In most systems, the caller dials a seven-digit number that feeds into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Chorus of Beepers | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

After reading your article on children and pornography [April 4], I have come to the conclusion that the only just way for me to rear my children would be to pack them up and move as far away as possible from this wretched so-called civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 25, 1977 | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

...busily devouring leaves and trying not to be devoured by beasts of the jungle. Brontosaurus indeed. Junk. And forget about Mr. Bangs because Bad Company has just brought out their fourth record in what has become an annual event--Burning Sky succeeds Bad Co., Straightshooter and Run with the Pack. Their music may not be carnivorous, but it's out there in the front evolutionary line and it shows few signs of going soft...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: A Quartet of Dragons | 4/21/1977 | See Source »

...album is made up of titles like "Heartbeat" or "Passing Time" or "Leaving You"--all pretty standard Bad Co. fare of fast-rocking numbers like their debut record's "Can't Get Enough" or Straightshooter "Feel Like Making Love" interspresed with slower ballads like "Seagull" or Run With the Pack's "Silver, Blue and Gold." Bad Company hasn't really developed along radically new lines, except for theri closer meshing-together as a group and a tighter control over the abrupt transitions from one volume and rhythm intensity to another that flawed passages of their first two LP's. Great...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: A Quartet of Dragons | 4/21/1977 | See Source »

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