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...Harvard's misfortune to run up against New England's number-one team as it tries to hoist itself up in this roller coaster season. Although Harvard played a sound game, moving the ball down the wings, Dartmouth's diamond defense, which has allowed just eight goals in eight games, prevented Harvard from getting close...

Author: By Daniel Gil, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Booters Suffer Hanover Hangover, 2-1 | 10/21/1978 | See Source »

...scrambled back for one last attempt at salvaging the roller-coaster summer, hitting for two runs in the eighth but stranding runners at first and second base in that frame, and first and third in the ninth...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Yanks Nip Sox for Title, 5-4 | 10/3/1978 | See Source »

Around the bend of the roller coaster, a booth peddled oysters, glasses of chilled Muscadet and posters decrying Brittany's disastrous oil spill of last spring. With a fine Gallic disdain for international worker solidarity, another food kiosk sold sangria and the message: SPAIN IN THE COMMON MARKET. A BAD BLOW FOR FRANCE. Workers hawked dish towels underneath a sign pleading SAVE THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY OF THE VOSGES. Break-the-bottle games featured images of such popular villains as French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, that advocate of dreaded social...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Pique-nic | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...WEIRD, Duke O'Connell was telling me. "I've done lots weirder things in show business." Oh? "There was the Groovy Booby". Oh? "... the Booby Sisters.. came out in drag on roller skates and did a strip tease..." Oh yeah. "...and pest control commercials for radio... they had guys who did frogs and things... I was into crickets." He made cricket noises...

Author: By Dequinces W. Josephson, | Title: Oh, Atlanta | 9/14/1978 | See Source »

...Waart from Rotterdam, after Seiji Ozawa relinquished that post to concentrate on his other job in Boston. Minnesota has grabbed two top Europeans: Britain's Neville Marriner as music director and Germany's Klaus Tennstedt as principal guest conductor. Los Angeles is easily the high roller in the game. It has captured Carlo Maria Giulini, 64, an Italian who is considered a master among maestros-but after having lost Zubin Mehta, 42, to New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Musical Chairs for the Maestros | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

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