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...question marks were, and remain, the freshmen. Calvin Dixon arrived with havy advance billing, but made no one forget Oscar Robertson. No one questions his potential--one evening of watching those moves dispels any doubts--yet the end result only adequate. He shot poorly (36 per cent), and only infrequently put all that flash to work...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Cagers Look to 'Get Somewhere' | 3/7/1980 | See Source »

With II seconds on the clock, Robertson travelled and Harvard got the ball under the Dartmouth basket, 100 ft. away from victory...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Cagers Nip Dartmouth, 77-75, In Triple Overtime Thriller | 2/6/1980 | See Source »

...playmaker Jon Edwards and center Cleo Robertson, Dartmouth managed to dissect both the Crimson zone and man-to-man defenses in the first half. Robertson repeatedly penetrated underneath and hit for 15 of his 23 total points in the first half...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Cagers Nip Dartmouth, 77-75, In Triple Overtime Thriller | 2/6/1980 | See Source »

...Striding beside a quintuple-tiered bank of telephones, affable Pat Robertson, 49, tells his viewers, "For 50? a day you can change the world," while his sidekick Ben Kinchlow hands him reports on the latest contributions. It is fund-raising telethon time on the 700 Club, and by week's end an audience watching 140 TV stations has pledged $10 million in the coming year to keep Robertson's daily "Christian talk show" coming from its Virginia Beach, Va., studios...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Stars of the Cathode Church | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

Such is the range of sentiment these days of those who really fought the last U.S. war, or so it seems in the creative mind of Novelist Josiah Bunting. The Compellas, Robertson and Lemming are fictional characters from Bunting's superb story of that sad war, The Lionheads, written in 1971. Last week, on the campus of Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, where he is president, Bunting updated his characters and their concerns. In these odd times the novelist's eye may tell us more about our emotions than the purveyors of polls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: The Lionheads Revisited | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

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