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...strong defensive performance helped the women's basketball team sink their first victory of the season, running past Boston College, 58-42, Saturday afternoon in Chestnut Hill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Women Topple B.C., 58-42 | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...Saturday in that magnificent sports edifice, the IAB, which once was the home of Theodore Roosevelt; (I don't understand that either.) The women's swimming team will open its home season against Boston University. At 2 p.m. the men will take the water and try to sink Navy. However, the Midshipmen will be well-equipped this season--each swimmer has his own nuclear submarine and missiles with long-range capabilities. This should prove to be one of the Crimson's toughest battles this year...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: Winter Is A-Comin' In And Fall Is A-Going | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

...before Columbus, he conquered the Atlantic in a boat made of papyrus. Now Heyerdahl is about to take a reed boat down the Tigris River from the purported site of the biblical Garden of Eden, eventually reach the open sea and either sail to India or East Africa, or sink-whichever comes first. His goal: to prove that the Sumerians-who established the earliest known civilization in what is today Iraq-could have used the route for trade and to spread their civilization as far away as India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: From Eden to India | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...Love Brothers, a Hispanic gang, began terrorizing the 100 or so residents of a six-story building on South Fourth Street, tearing out the building's pipes, smashing windows and furnishings and peddling whatever could be moved. They got $35 a stove, $25 a refrigerator, $10 a sink, $3 a steam radiator. By week's end the building was a cannibalized hulk, and all the tenants were gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Going... Going... Gone? | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...been abandoned after the Marx Brothers' first two pictures "The Cocoanuts" and "Animal Crackers"--and "A Night at the Opera features Allan Jones and To Tell the Truth Grand Dame Kitty Carlisle as a pair of nauseatingly naive and boring singing lovers. But even they are not enough to sink a film featuring the redoubtable Margaret Dumont and authored by (among others) George S. Kaufman, S. J. Perelman, and 300-pound miracle worker Al Boasberg, who wrote the famous stateroom scene and then left it torn up into tiny strips for the others to find and paste together...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: There's A Hitch At Quincy | 11/3/1977 | See Source »

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