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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Quarterback Jim Stoeckel, split end Pat McInally, defensive end Mitch Berger and the Crimson's adjuster George Newhouse were all picked to Princeton's All-Opponent Football Team. McInally caught eight windblown Stockel passes for 79 yard in the Princeton contest, while the defense led by Berger and Newhouse shut the Tigers off in the final period to give Harvard...
...professional drivers are already getting a taste of gas-pump privation. On the first gasless Sunday, an estimated 90% of the nation's filling-station operators obeyed President Nixon's call to shut down between 9 p.m. Saturday and midnight Sunday. Whether the closings actually saved much-or any-fuel is questionable. Some stations did double their normal business on Saturday, then ran dry in the early-Monday rush. "It's just like the run on nylons in World War II," said a Boston attendant. Highways were nearly emptied in some areas; toll takers on Chicago expressways...
From now on, local communities will also handle all drug addiction cases formerly treated in two big federal drug treatment centers. Last year the center in Fort Worth, Texas was closed and this month the famed huge 38-year-old fortress-like hospital in Lexington, Ky., will shut its doors. The explosion of the addict population in the 1960s made it clear that the treatment offered in the federal facilities was not effective. Getting the addicts jobs and re-establishing them in their own neighborhoods proved to be more important than drug therapy or psychiatric training far from home...
Jack Warner shut down the animation unit for a few years during the early '50s when he thought that 3-D was the thing of the future. During the hiatus, Jones worked for Walt Disney, whom he admires ("the D.W. Griffith of animation"), but whose creative control he found restrictive. After a few more years of activity, the Warner Bros, animation unit was closed for good in 1962. Since then Jones has worked mostly on TV, producing a syndicated series called The Curiosity Shop and directing an occasional half-hour animated special, like the sweetly eccentric A Very Merry...
Even without number three man Arch Gwathmey, number six man Bill Kaplan and number seven man Peter Havens, the Crimson squash team shut out yet another opponent this season. The raquetmen pummeled Army Saturday, 9-0, at West Point...