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...lingering in the corners of the driveway, and sure, it was only a tennis ball, not the real thing with the stitches and the swishing sound it makes when you throw it. But those bounding balls, those one-hoppers, those occasional line drives, and those lazy flyballs off the roof were all unmistakeably baseball, and you were unmistakeably playing...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Diamond Time is Nigh | 2/21/1979 | See Source »

...Crimson held a 29-25 advantage with seven minutes left in the stanza when the roof collapsed. Penn recaptured the lead, 31-30, and then reeled off ten more points as the Crimson's scoring drive stalled. At halftime the count stood Penn 43, Harvard...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Quakers Crush Cagers, 86-73; Ivy Weekend Ends Winless | 2/20/1979 | See Source »

...career, it also becomes an irresistible American success story. Taken as a whole, Roots 11 is a compendium of pop cul ture: it mixes elements of Gone With the Wind, Uncle Tom 's Cabin, March of Time newsreels, Horatio Alger sto ries and even Fiddler on the Roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Super Sequel to Haley's Comet | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...undergraduate committee that selects the student member to the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) is trying to push the snowball off the roof...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Inciting An Avalanche | 2/3/1979 | See Source »

Robbins takes a light flip through the calendar. The beginning is too coy: girls dance in the snow, shivering and pushing each other to keep warm. This is not the kind of joke that the City Ballet corps can manage without making it look like a snowslide off a roof. Then, however, Robbins presents Heather Watts with a crystalline gift: a variation with fast échappés and arctic-still balances that show her strong technique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Stepping Up to Paradise | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

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