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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Local Philadelphia residents refer to the Schuykill River as the "Sure Kill" because of its rampant pollution and acid pH balance. The waterway did indeed mean death for the Pennsylvania and Navy heavyweight crews on Saturday, as Harvard's varsity, J.V. and freshmen murdered them by convincing margins of at least a length...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Heavyweights Streak Past Penn by Nine Seconds | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...Washington 121, Philadelphia 105 Seattle 121. Denver...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCOREBOARD | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...Philadelphia 3, Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCOREBOARD | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...long-time rivals go at it again in the Adams Cup race on the Schuykill River in Philadelphia tomorrow, in what should be a neck-and-neck encounter. An eight from Navy rounds out the field but doesn't loom as a threat to the oarsmen...

Author: By Elizabeth N. Friese, | Title: Heavyweight Crew Faces Rival Penn | 5/5/1978 | See Source »

...America the tourist wandered through Philadelphia, then journeyed down the Ohio River across the wilderness and back through the Allegheny Mountains. Encounters with Indian maidens and frontier moonlight enlivened his novels René and Atala and gave many Europeans new notions of the New World. The fantastic journey ended one night in a backwoods millhouse, where the fire illuminated an old newspaper headline: FLIGHT OF THE KING. Chateaubriand raced to Europe to join the army of the émigré princes. But the cause was hopeless, and he fled in exile to England. There he will languish until Volume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lingering Romance | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

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