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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard's winning ?? the Crimson did not exactly blow the Indians into the surrounding Hanover hills. A ten-minute span of sloppy play reminiscent of its performance against Princeton and North-eastern took the sharp edge off the Crimson's game midway though the second ??, and kept a game that should have been a runaway quite a bit closer...
...victims had smoked seven to nine unfiltered cigarettes a day over a 21-year period. That, Dr. E. Cuyler Hammond figured, was the equivalent of a man's smoking almost two packs a day for 18 years, after making allowance for the beagles' size and shorter life span. Two of the dogs' cancers were indistinguishable from human smokers' lung cancer; the remaining ten were of types that are less common but are also found in men. There were other significant results: dogs that smoked the same number of filtered cigarettes did not develop cancer...
Alcohol has long been a means of escape from boredom and pressures for Indians. On one Midwest reservation containing 4,600 adults, 44% of all the men and 21% of the women were arrested at least once for drunkenness in a span of three years. Many reservations have opened bars and liquor stores to keep Indians from killing themselves in auto accidents en route home from binges in the city. A much-repeated explanation quotes Bill Pensoneau, president of the National Indian Youth Council, as telling a new commissioner of Indian Affairs: "We drown ourselves in wine and smother ourselves...
...Montreal tournament, it was more of the same. With a 5-0 margin over weak McGill entering the third period, Harvard yielded four goals within a ten-minute span, and had to rally to gain its 7-4 triumph...
Traffic rose a heartening 7% during 1969, but officials figure that the bridge-tunnel will not start to break even for another decade. An average of 105,518 cars, trucks and buses a month have been using the span, mostly on weekends. On weekdays, the roadways of the superspan are often deserted-except for clusters of seagulls...