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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's main hopes lie in the fourth-and fifth-place categories, where Stowell says the team must "peck away at them." Triple-jumper Bruce Brooks and high-jumper Mike Young are the prime candidates to pick up these "unexpected" points that might swing the meet in the Crimson's favor, with Chris Queen and Tom DiBenedetto also challenging in the shot...

Author: By Theodore S. Chandler, | Title: Trackmen Vie for Greater Boston Title | 2/3/1978 | See Source »

...advertising as Yule fuel. This year one can even buy a turkey dinner-buy dinner, that is, for Meleagris gallapavo, the American wild turkey. The offer comes from the Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary on Martha's Vineyard, where as many as 650 wild ducks, geese and turkeys peck through 200 Ibs. of corn, oats, wheat and high-protein dog food at a sitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: How to Stuff a Turkey | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

After donning five stars as MacArthur, Gregory Peck is marching to a different tune. For one of the few times in his 34 years on-camera, Peck, 61, is playing a villain. His role: Dr. Josef Mengele, Hitler's SS physician in the movie version of Ira Levin's bestseller The Boys from Brazil. Living in exile in Paraguay, Mengele, with the help of a Nazi collaborator (James Mason), is involved in a bizarre scheme to clone 94 duplicates of Hitler. The evil machinations don't faze perennial Good Guy Peck. "Being obsessed and sadistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 21, 1977 | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

These are serious times for the Boston Red Sox. As of last night they were 4 1/2 games out of first place with 12 games left to play, two of them against the league-leading Yankees last night and tonight. Xs I hunt and peck this piece Thurmon Munson has just put one into the left field screen at Fenway Park to give the New Yorkers an early lead. It's like waving a Milky Way in front of a fat child...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Fear And Losing at Fenway | 9/20/1977 | See Source »

...fondness for "docu-dramas," is subject to special danger of another sort. People who go to a moviehouse expect to see fiction and accept the conventions of historical drama: no one is much worse off if everyone's image of Disraeli is George Arliss or if Gregory Peck romanticizes the legend of Douglas MacArthur. But, as a number of psychologists have pointed out, the television screen provides most people with their visual knowledge of real events, such as President Kennedy's assassination, so that truth and show-biz demands are bound to get mixed up when two networks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Playing with the Facts | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

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