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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...setting off again. Then I went for half an hour before resting. I started again, sweating now, breathing harder, throat drying, back and legs burning from the sun, and as I came around a ledge I ran smack into what joggers call The Wall. Not The Wall at Fenway Park, but a massive physiological-psychological being who sits on your chest and squeezes your lungs and makes each step an act of supreme will worthy of a Nietzschean Superman...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Riding a Greyhound In Search of America | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

Soon after Steven Masover, 19, held up a bank in Menlo Park, Calif., last November, he was apprehended with $78,000 of the bank's cash, an unloaded gun, a fake bomb and three hostages. In court, Masover, who was valedictorian of his class in high school, relied on a bizarre defense: he had stolen the money, but only to invest it in colonies in outer space as a way for earthlings to escape pollution and overpopulation. Moreover, he planned to pay the money back in 20 years or so, making the heist a forced loan rather than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Far-Out Defense | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...Harvard harriers marooned Penn and Columbia on the five-mile moonscape known as Van Cortland Park in New York City yesterday. The Crimson defeated arch rival Penn 25-30 and outlasted the native New Yorkers 26-30 in the traditionally tightly run dual meet...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Runners Boot Quakers, Lions | 9/30/1978 | See Source »

Cross country 25--Columbia 30 at Van Cortland Park in New York City...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCOREBOARD | 9/30/1978 | See Source »

...apocalypse has taken over Fenway Park. With the cutting 45 degree elements shedding a weird glow to this summer sport, fans sipped hot chocolate and pressed their ears to transistor radios straining to hear the outcome of the ever-more-important ball games in New York. New York went on to beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-1 behind Ron Guidry's 24th win, and not surprisingly, the tight defensive play of the Red Sox didn't cheer anyone up. They are still second best. And there are three games left in the season...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Red Sox Edge Detroit, 1-0, Zimmer Sings the Blues | 9/29/1978 | See Source »

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