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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group." It went on to say that Moro's body could be found in a tiny lake high in the Apennine mountains 70 miles northeast of Rome. Helicopters carrying frogmen and Alpine troops converged on the mountainside. The lake, virtually unreachable except by sophisticated mountaineers, was nearly frozen solid. After two days of searching, a body was found; it turned out to be that of a local shepherd who had apparently drowned himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: A Nation in Torment | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...began in 1967-68, just nine Americans were signed on. This year the number is up to 234 Americans on 24 teams, a jump of almost 30% over last season. American players now make up 48% of the league's rosters-an astonishing spurt of growth and a solid indication of how firmly the world's most popular sport has caught on in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Here Come the Americans | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

With a budget of $1.1 million, the company has built a solid repertory of 41 works, but it still finds that educating an audience can be difficult. A Swan Lake fills Atlanta's 4,400-seat Fox Theater, but modern works at the 856-seat Alliance Theater play to half a house. Yet Fischl sees signs of growing sophistication: "We still get people who giggle at the tights, but the number is dropping, and people are accepting them as just another uniform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Boom at the Box Office | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

Junior Ron Himelman, despondent over an early morning report that he shot a 68 on a recent hourly, revived his spirits with a solid Group II effort on his Pleasant Valley scorecard: 87 strokes. Junior Spence Fitzgibbons, ailing under the delusion that he is the incarnation of the infamous Dr. Wadi Haddad of Terror International, died once again as he soared to what is a nice temperature in the Iraqi desert--85. Sophomore Jim Dales chattered his way through a four-putt green and an 82. Senior Dave Paxton played a near impeccable front nine, then rose to the occasion...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Dead Solid Tragic | 4/28/1978 | See Source »

...with the comedies, but the dark undertones are much in evidence--yet it's the premiere choice for Harvard's newest theatrical organization, the Harvard Shakespeare Theater. The Theater was formed to fill what "Measure's" executive producer, John Cooper, calls "a gap in Harvard theater," a place for solid, interpretive performances of Shakespeare and other classics. When Cooper says "interpretive," he clearly means it--after all, Shakespeare's Viennese setting of the play has been switched to the nineteenth century, because Cooper feels it's a closer-to-home example of a corrupt society under a veneer of propriety...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: Just Desserts | 4/27/1978 | See Source »

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