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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...before a clutch of contending clubs, finally settling on the Philadelphia Phillies and their reported dowry of $3.5 million over four years. Former Minnesota Twins Star Rod Carew took his seven batting titles to the California Angels in exchange for some $4.5 million over five years. Boston Slugger Jim Rice, the American League's M.V.P. last season, agreed to a seven-year deal said to total $5.4 million and, in the process, earned Carl Yastrzemski an estimated $1.2 million worth of primogeniture for the remaining two years of his contract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Plutocrat from Pittsburgh | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...into Schreiber in Cambridge in 1969, she'd have newer guessed she'd be writing sports for The Times ten years later. She picked up her undergraduate degree in 1967 from Rice and an M.A. from Stanford the next year. Then Schreiber came east in search of a Harvard Ph.D. From 1969 to 1974, she was a doctoral candidate in the English Department, leading sections in English 76 and teaching seminars about William Faulkner. She'd finished up all her required course work, passed her oral exams, and was two-thirds of the way through her dissertation. Dissertation...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Le Anne Schreiber: Behind the Desk at The Times | 4/12/1979 | See Source »

Zbigniew Brzezinski and wife enjoyed the Washington premiere of Hair so much that they decided to take in the post-premiere party at the elan, a downtown D.C. disco. Doffing coat and tie, munching from a health spread of brown rice, raw vegetables and yogurt soup, President Carter's national security adviser danced almost every feverish dance. His evening was interrupted only once for a White House call (subject undisclosed). When asked what he thought of the movie, he replied in diplomatic circum-speak: "It was a benign view of a difficult past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 9, 1979 | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

...Government, which still allows sprays to be used on rangelands and rice fields, is ambivalent about dioxin. Thomas Whiteside, a British-born journalist who writes regularly in The New Yorker, is not. Whiteside's early articles on dioxin started a move that led, back in 1970, to a ban on the practice of spraying herbicides containing the substance on the jungles of Viet Nam. His newest book may help to create a climate for domestic restrictions. Such action seems appropriate. Everything that is known about dioxin, associated with skin eruptions, liver damage, cancers, mental problems, miscarriages and birth defects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Defoliation | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

Hunt also got first-place finishes from Kathy Rice in the long jump and Sue Harper in the 440 intermediate hurdles...

Author: By Panos P. Constantinides, | Title: Weather, Minutemen Mar Thinclads' Outdoor Debut | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

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